The Prince Regent has been caught in a compromising situation; he is
found in his room with a young woman in his arms. The thing is, she has
a knife protruding from her back. Lord Jarvis asks Sebastian, Viscount
Devlin, to investigate. He shows Devlin the necklace on the woman’s
neck. Devlin recognises it as the necklace that his mother used to
wear.
Devlin asks that his surgeon friend, Paul Gibson be brought to examine
the body. Paul suggests that she had been killed elsewhere and then
brought to the room where the prince found her. He also states that she
was dead before the knife was thrust into her back.
The husband of the victim had assumed that she was still in London, not
in Brighton, where the murder apparently occurred. She was pregnant and
unable to travel down with him. He also suggests that his nephew, and
heir, wasn’t particularly happy when he married the young woman. Devlin
decides to return to London to check on things there.
One thing that he learns is that on the day she died, the victim was not
wearing a necklace. Could the necklace’s connection to the Stuart
dynasty have anything to do with her death?
Author C. S. Harris has Devlin and his tiger, Tom experience a number of
rollicking adventures and threats to their lives as they work hard to
find out who killed the young woman and why. A thoroughly enjoyable
read.
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