Peter Diamond, British detective extraordinaire, must dig deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous) icons: Richard ?Beau? Nash, who might be the victim of a centuries old murder.
Peter Diamond #17
Soho Crime
December 2017
On Sale: December 5, 2017
Featuring: Peter Diamond
416 pages ISBN: 1616959053 EAN: 9781616959050 Kindle: B0722TJRBP Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Bath, England: A wrecking crew is demolishing a row of townhouses in order to build a grocery store when they uncover a skeleton in one of the attics. The dead man is wearing authentic 1760s garb and on the floor next to it is a white tricorn hatβthe ostentatious signature accessory of Beau Nash, one of Bathβs most famous historical men-about-town, a fashion icon and incurable rake who, some say, ended up in a pauperβs grave. Or did the Beau actually end up in a townhouse attic? The Beau Nash Society will be all in a tizzy when the truth is revealed to them.
Chief Inspector Peter Diamond, who has been assigned to identify the remains, begins to fantasize about turning Nash scholarship on its ear. But one of his constables is stubbornly insisting the corpse canβt be Nashβsβthe non- believer threatens to spoil Diamondβs favorite theory, especially when he offers some pretty irrefutable evidence. Is Diamond on a historical goose chase? Should he actually be investigating a much more modern murder?
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