Painted Lady
A beautiful woman. An unrequited love. An excuse for murder.Araminta Jewell is one of the beauties of her day. Even her marriage to the staid and ugly Sir Martin Culthorpe has not discouraged her hordes of admirers. It is during her first sitting for a portrait painted by the fashionable French artist Jean-Paul Villemot that the architect Christopher Redmayne meets the lovely Lady Culthorpe, although he has heard much about her through his brother Henry, one of her most ardent pursuers. Before the portrait can be finished and revealed, however, Sir Martin is murdered. Joining fores with his good friend, the puritan constable Jonathan Bale, Ch…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7490-1032-4
- EAN: 9780749010324
- Produktnummer: 13841568
- Verlag: Allison & Busby
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 273 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Edward Marston was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television and the theatre and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers' Association. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home writing children's books or literary criticism, plays or biographies. The Repentant Rake is the third book in the series featuring architect Christopher Redmayne and the Puritan Constable Jonathan Bale, set in Restoration London.
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