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Minotaur Books
October 2014
On Sale: September 23, 2014
Featuring: Eliza Doolittle; Henry Higgins; Emil Nepommuck
336 pages ISBN: 1250049350 EAN: 9781250049353 Kindle: B00IQOJDZ0 Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery
Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins make an incomparable pair
of sleuths in the start of a delightful new series Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball—where
Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins’ bet that he
could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess—Eliza
becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck.
After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza
into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London
newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found
with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins becomes Scotland
Yard’s prime suspect. However, Eliza learns that most of Nepommuck’s pupils had a
reason to murder their blackmailing teacher. As another
suspect turns up dead and evidence goes missing, Eliza and
Higgins realize the only way to clear the Professor’s name
is to discover which of Nepommuck’s many enemies is the real
killer. When all the suspects attend a performance of Hamlet
at Drury Lane, Eliza and Higgins don their theatre best and
race to upstage a murderer. This reimagining of George Bernard Shaw’s beloved characters
is sheer pleasure. Wouldn’t It Be Deadly transports readers
to Edwardian London, from the aristocratic environs of
Mayfair to the dangerous back alleys of the East End. Eliza
and Henry steal the show in this charming traditional mystery.
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