Dimensions
113 x 178 x 18mm
A Robert Fairfax Mystery.
Engaged as tutor to the young children of wealthy and ambitious sugar merchant, Mr Samuel Appleton, Robert Fairfax soon finds that his employer has other work for him to do. Appleton's beautiful daughter, Charlotte, has made a very good marriage to the notoriously rakish and thoroughly aristocratic Lord Mortlock - yet all is not well with the match previously backed so keenly by Appleton.
Urged to investigate discreetly, Fairfax finds evidence of gambling debts, love affairs - and intrigue. What is Lord Mortlock's connection with a young man found in St James' Park, an apparent suicide? What game is Charlotte playing with the mysterious society doctor and the vivacious Irish musician who both dance attendance on her? When Lord Mortlock is found murdered in his bed, his wife's levee proceeding in the next room, Fairfax urgently needs to find answers. In the harsh glitter of eighteenth-century-society - with its duels, scandals, fortunes lost on the turn of a card, and women treated as a commodity like sugar and slaves - Fairfax must find the truth behind the elegant facade of lies. And, in the great masquerade of life, unmask an evil killer . . .
