Description
Implicated in two vicious murders over a period of seven years, Lady Isabelle Delmayne and Eugenie, Viscountess Crowthorn, share scandalous secrets. Theirs is a history of ambition, duplicity, moral blackmail and betrayal. Inescapably locked together by intimate knowledge of each other’s secrets, each struggles for the upper hand, one to free herself from treacherous domination, the other to channel all retribution on to her victim.
The August heatwave of 1908 breaks in an electric storm, and a cloudburst floods Stakerleys estate, after twhich the body of a bludgeoned foreigner is found in the swollen river. The ensuing police inquiry dredges up dangerous ghosts from the women’s past and evidence of a similar death glossed over when they had earlier travelled together in Europe. Then Isabelle was newly widowed at twenty-one and Eugenie her companion fresh from school, the daughter of a provincial tailoress.
Against the Edwardian background of a noble house, family and investigators tussle over the chain of hidden truths, each side employing deception against the other in an ill-balanced social scene where, once the ghouls are glimpsed, the unseemly could be swept under the Aubusson and the carpet then disposed of.
Paperback, 247 pages. In excellent preloved condition with the exception of a minor crease in the lower right corner of front cover. No fading or creasing to spine.