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WOULDN'T IT BE DEADLY
By: D.E. Ireland
Minotaur Books
October 2014
On Sale: September 23, 2014
Featuring: Eliza Doolittle; Henry Higgins; Emil Nepommuck
336 pages
ISBN: 1250049350
EAN: 9781250049353
Kindle: B00IQOJDZ0
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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 Ballโwhere Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higginsโ bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchessโEliza 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 Yardโs prime suspect. However, Eliza learns that most of Nepommuckโs 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 Professorโs name is to discover which of Nepommuckโs 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 Shawโs beloved characters is sheer pleasure. Wouldnโt 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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