So when their dog turns up a body floating in Hyde Park's lake, the Serpentine, their curiosity is piqued. The Earl of Wrexford and his wife, Charlotte, have had a great deal of experience with mysteries, and their wards, Raven and Hawk, former street urchins with a scientific bent, are always up for a new adventure.
(Oct.An aristocratic sleuthing duo seeks a killer in Regency London's back alleys and drawing rooms.
Agent: Gail Fortune, Fortune Talbot Agency. Readers who enjoy a colorful depiction of Regency England without demanding strict plausibility will have fun. Fascinating and well-researched historic events compensate for a plot that unwinds slowly and sometimes tediously as a host of intrepid heroes and heroines pit their wits against dastardly villains. Willis was designing a fearsome secret weapon, but the prototype for his invention is missing, and the Crown’s spymaster, Lord Grentham, recruits Wrexford to retrieve it before it falls into the hands of a foreign enemy.
But after the boys discover the body of engineering wizard Jeremiah Willis floating in a lake in Hyde Park, Charlotte’s long-desired life of domesticity will have to wait a while longer. Quill, has finally married the dashing Earl of Wrexford, and they have created an unorthodox family with their two rambunctious, streetwise wards. Charlotte Sloane, whose secret identity is scathing political cartoonist A.J. At the start of Penrose’s roisterous sixth Wrexford and Sloane mystery (after 2021’s Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens), the Napoleonic Wars are finally over, and the Prince Regent has invited the sovereigns of Europe to London for a gala peace celebration.
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