Bertie and the Seven Bodies: A Victorian Mystery - Hardcover

Lovesey, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892963999 ISBN 13: 9780892963997

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1990

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Real and fictional characters mix as Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and his pals romp through a Victorian whodunit set during a hunt at a great home in Buckinghamshire

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When a killer stalks a dinner-and-gameshooting party on an English country estate, the corpses drop like pheasants. High-living Albert Edward ("Bertie"), Prince of Wales, who made his detective debut in Lovesey's Bertie and the Tinman , is the fumbling sleuth and rakish narrator, loosely modeled on the real-life prince who became King Edward VII. Bertie discovers that the nursery rhyme "Monday's child is fair of face . . . " holds the key; each line of the poem points to the next victim. Among the dwindling group of party guests, one of whom is the murderer, are an Amazon explorer, a stuttering poet and a scheming actress. Half the fun of this romp lies in watching Bertie invent, then discard, one theory after another; for a while his suspicions even fall on the widowed hostess he wants to bed. The other half comes from Lovesey's light mockery of Victorian manners and sexual mores in a bright, entertaining tale whose bantering tone conceals artful plotting.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0892963999
• ISBN 13: 9780892963997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1