Fidelis Morgan ist die Autorin einer Reihe von Kriminalromanen mit der Gräfin Ashby dela Zouche und einer Reihe schillernder Charaktere. Ihre Bücher werden als „17. Jahrhundert Armistead Maupin“, „Flashman für Mädchen“, „ein frecher P. G. Wodehouse“ und „Cagney und Lacey in Korsetts“ beschrieben. Sie hat auch viele einflussreiche Sachbücher veröffentlicht, hauptsächlich über das 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Ihr neuester Kriminalroman ist ein modernes Mysterium.
Fidelis Morgan, geboren 1952, arbeitete als Schauspielerin und ist Expertin für historische Theateraufführungen. Sie hat bereits ein Sachbuch über berühmte Frauen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts geschrieben. Alice Jakubeit übersetzt Romane, Sachbücher und Reportagen aus dem Englischen und Spanischen, u. a. Alexander McCall Smith, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, Brian McGilloway und Eva García Sáenz. Sie lebt in Düsseldorf.
An unlikely chaperone, the Countess Ashby de la Zouche is disappointed to find that the exiled English Court at St Germain is not a den of iniquity. As sleuths however, she and her maid find danger - investigating a plot against three kings and in an encounter with a mysterious Bastille prisoner.
Part of the "Bluffer's Guides" series, this book explains how to bluff your way in theatre. These guides are designed to help the reader achieve instant expertise and become a successful bluffer. Other "Bluffer's Guides" look at accountancy, golf, music and world affairs.
London 1699. Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to Charles II, is an aristocrat on her uppers. Cast into the Fleet Prison, she is forced to turn to journalism. But the Countess and her maidservant encounter more intrigue than they bargained for.
London 1699. Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maid, the faithful Alpiew, are dashing around, plying their trade as scandal-mongers. Happily, scandals are falling in their laps like ripe plums. But scandal takes on some gravitas when the Countess and Alpiew are hired to solve the murder of a popular leading lady. And things get yet more serious when they stumble into a mess of corruption with connections to the very furthest reaches of society.
Set in London in 1700, the story follows the daring Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her resourceful maidservant, Alpiew, as they seek scandal for the London Trumpet while evading bailiffs. Their evening at a philosophical lecture takes a shocking turn when a performer appears on stage covered in blood, revealing that a prominent figure has been decapitated right before their eyes. This unexpected twist propels them into a gripping mystery filled with intrigue and danger.
Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess finds herself with cash to spare. Unlikelier still, she decides to do the sensible thing and invest it, caught up in London society's new craze for stocks and shares. Overnight, fortunes are being made, wealth amassed from nothing in a frenzy of speculation. And with these new-found riches anything can be bought: commodities, monkeys...even people. But as the Countess and Alpiew learn to their cost, investments can go down as well as up -- helped along by a little embezzlement from those bastions of respectability, bankers and brokers. Soon banking leads to begging, burglary, and strange bedfellows -- including an aspiring novelist with a grievance and a hirsute dwarf of astounding agility.
There's a dead body on the Common, so what else can you talk about over dinner? But for a husband and wife whose marriage is on the rocks, their bank manager, their lawyer and his bimbo girlfriend, is it a safe conversation to have, particularly when a writer of lurid crime fiction is also there to make up the numbers. There's a very sharp knife about the place too. And whatever did happen to the missing librarian?In this intriguing novel Fidelis Morgan plays tag with the reader, taking them through the minds of six guests at a dinner party where Murder is on the Menu"Creepy yet hilarious, filled with startling twists and thrills, this one had me laughing even as I was feverishly turning the pages. Only Fidelis Morgan can pull off a caper with such wit and style!"-- Tess Gerritsen"Fidelis Morgan plays a great game with the readers. The Murder Quadrille is twisty fun." -- Karin Slaughter"Fabulously funny, twisted, dark and unpredictable. You couldn't pry it out of my hands!"-- Rebecca Chance"Every time you think you know where the story is going, it performs a switchback worthy of any white knuckle ride. In short, expect the unexpected, because this is a rip-roaring page turner that wrong-foots you at every end and turn." -- Crimefictionlover.com
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