Purchase

Amazon

Add to Wish List

Also by Rosemary Stevens:

Murder in the Pleasure Gardens, June 2004
Paperback
The Bloodied Cravat, June 2003
Paperback (reprint)
The Tainted Snuffbox, April 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Death On A Silver Tray, May 2001
Paperback (reprint)

MURDER IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS
By: Rosemary Stevens

Berkley Prime Crime
June 2004
Featuring: Beau Brummell
256 pages
ISBN: 0425196895
Paperback
Add to Wish List

Mystery Historical

After one too many distasteful meals at his usual gentleman's club, Beau Brummell opens his own named Watier's. It isn't long before the club's exquisite cuisine and high gambling stakes attract London's aristocracy to Beau's doors. Bu the fashionable establishment becomes embroiled in scandal when Lieutenant Nevill, inexperienced in games of chance, believes he's been cheated at cards by government official Theobald Jacombe. The confrontation escalates when Jacombe make off- color remarks about the lieutenant's intended . . . infuriating the young officer into challenging him to a duel.

Before Beau can talk Nevill out of this course of action, Jacombe is found murdered at Vauxhall's Pleasure Gardens — and the lieutenant is detained as the most likely suspect. Convinced of Nevill's innocence, the master of style must deduce who would want to kill a respected member of the Home Office with a supposedly spotless reputation . .