If her fianc were to discover her indiscretion, he would break their engagement, so Ames must recover the letters to save Val from social ostracism. His orphaned young cousin, Valentine, has made a most desirable match, but she has unfortunately been indiscreet, and the love letters she wrote during a failed summer romance have somehow fallen into Colonel Mann’s hands. But it’s his reason for visiting Colonel Mann in the first place that is by far Ames’s greatest concern. By discovering the body, Addington Ames, a resident of Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill, has violated at least two tenets of the Boston Brahmin code of behavior to which he was born his name has appeared in the newspapers, and he has been questioned by the police. Mann was the publisher of a scurrilous gossip rag in which he exposed the indiscretions, great and small, of Boston’s highest caste unless they paid the hush money he demanded. When Colonel William D’Arcy Mann is found shot dead in his Boston hotel suite, there are few to mourn him but many who will feel the repercussions of his untimely demise. Victorian Boston is the splendid setting for a deliciously scandalous murder in this seductive historical mystery.
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