The Maharani's Pearls

✍ Charles Todd 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Witness Impulse 🌐 en-CA ⚖ 60 KB

Living with her family in India, young Bess Crawford's curiosity about this exotic country sometimes leads her into trouble. One day she slips away from the cantonment to visit the famous seer in a nearby village. Before this woman can finish telling her fortune, Bess is summoned back for an after

📂 Standards 🏛 Harper Collins 🌐 English ⚖ 293 KB

The maharani's pearls: a Bess Crawford story

Living with her family in India, young Bess Crawford's curiosity about this exotic country sometimes leads her into trouble. One day she slips away from the cantonment to visit the famous seer in a nearby village. Before this woman can finish telling her fortune, Bess is summoned back for an aftern

The Maharani's Pearls: A Bess Crawford Story

✍ Todd, Charles 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Witness Impulse 🌐 English ⚖ 60 KB

Living with her family in India, young Bess Crawford's curiosity about this exotic country sometimes leads her into trouble. One day she slips away from the cantonment to visit the famous seer in a nearby village. Before this woman can finish telling her fortune, Bess is summoned back for an aftern

Tales (The Kidnapping; The Girl on the Beach; Cold Comfort; The Maharani's Pearls)

✍ Todd, Charles 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Witness Impulse 🌐 English ⚖ 103 KB

Now published together for the first time: Charles Todd's absorbing short stories"The Kidnapping," "The Girl on the Beach," "Cold Comfort," and "The Maharani's Pearls"featuring everyone's favorite Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge and intrepid battlefield nurse Bess Crawford. These vibrant tales

Maharani

✍ Bond, Ruskin 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 313 KB

H.H. is the spoilt, selfish, beautiful widow of the Maharajah of Mastipur. She lives with her dogs and her caretaker, Hans, in an enormous old house in Mussorie, taking lovers and discarding them, drinking too much, and fending off her reckless sons who are waiting hungrily for their inheritance. Th