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Berkley Prime Crime
June 2004
Featuring: Beau Brummell
256 pages ISBN: 0425196895 Paperback
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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 . .
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