Dimensions
111 x 178 x 20mm
A Robert Fairfax Mystery.
To Bath in its Georgian heyday come colourful visitors - the grand and the would-be grand, fortune hunters and heiresses, invalids and quacks and imposters. Not the least colourful is Colonel Sir James Delabole - wealthy, gouty and seeking to make amends for a disreputable past. His daughter, Caroline - abandoned after an early, scandalous marriage - has been brought up by her stern stepfather, who seems less inclined to forgive the past than Caroline herself.
When flamboyant Sir James is found poisoned, Robert Fairfax, tutor and amateur sleuth, discovers there is no shortage of suspects, from the browbeaten second wife to the handsome young officer whom Sir James publicly humiliated at the city's celebrated baths. Investigating the mystery surrounding Sir James's death, Fairfax enters a murky world of greed, scandal and deception, and he soon finds that the elegant spa is not such a healthy place to be . . .
