Bertie and the crime of passion - Hardcover

Lovesey, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316906859 ISBN 13: 9780316906852

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1995

Synopsis

Bertie, Prince of Wales, is in Paris en route for Cannes in the spring of 1891. One of the attractions of the city is the company of Sarah Bernhardt, and it is she who informs him that the prospective son-in-law of his old friend, Jules d'Agincourt, has been murdered at the Moulin Rouge.

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About the Author

Peter Lovesey was born in Middlesex and studied at Hampton Grammar School and Reading University, where he met his wife Jax. He won a competition with his first crime fiction novel, Wobble to Death, and has never looked back, with his numerous books winning and being shortlisted for nearly all the prizes in the international crime writing world. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and has been presented with Lifetime Achievement awards both in the UK and the US.

From Publishers Weekly

Lovesey's third spirited mystery to feature Edward VII, Prince of Wales, as a dogged, often fatuous but ever-successful amateur sleuth (Bertie and the Tinman) finds the royal in Paris in 1891. There, Bertie is discreetly enjoying the City of Light's pleasures and his platonic meetings with reigning actress Sarah Bernhard, when Maurice Letissier, prospective son-in-law of Bertie's old friend Jules d'Agincourt, is shot dead at the Moulin Rouge. Present when the unseen gunman fired were Jules, his wife, his newly betrothed daughter and his younger son, all celebrating the engagement while, along with dozens of other patrons, they watched the frenzied dancing of the notorious La Goulue and her partner, Valentin. Bertie's detecting instincts are aroused, especially as he becomes aware of the victim's libertine ways and of his fiancee's involvement with Glyn Morgan, a penniless, 50-year-old painter. When the Surete arrest Morgan for the crime, Bertie, convinced of his innocence, is spurred to bolder explorations of the city's seamier aspects, producing at last a surprising confession. A lively evocation of fin-de-siecle Paris, a lightly ironic tone and some tidy plotting add up to another easy-to-take confection from this reliable British author.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316906859
• ISBN 13: 9780316906852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256