By Stephanie Barron
It truly is with a heavy middle that Jane Austen takes up a brand new place of abode at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Secretly mourning the misplaced love of her existence, she's shocked to benefit that the overdue Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her inheritor to a rare bequest: a Bengal chest packed with his diaries, letters, and so much intimate correspondence. From those, Jane is predicted to jot down a memoir of the Gentleman Rogue for posterity. yet sooner than she will placed pen to paper in this exertions of affection, she discovers a corpse within the cellar of her new home.
The useless guy used to be a typical laborer, and a next coroner's exam indicates he was once murdered somewhere else and transported to Chawton Cottage. by surprise Jane and her family members are thrust into the guts of a brewing scandal during this provincial village that does not take kindly to outsiders in general—and to Austens in particular.
And simply as Jane glimpses a connection among the homicide and the shattering fact hid someplace in Lord Harold's papers, violent dying moves one more unsuspecting vicitim. all of sudden there are suspects and factors far and wide Jane looks—local burglaries, thwarted passions, would-be knights, and participants of the royal kinfolk itself who wish Lord Harold hushed . . . even in loss of life. because the story of 1 man's illustrious existence unfolds—a existence that runs a parallel path to the historical past of 2 continents—Jane races opposed to time to capture a crafty killer earlier than extra blameless lives are taken. yet her choice to guard Lord Harold's legacy may possibly targeted the most costly rate of all: her personal life.
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy is historic suspense writing at its very most interesting, graced with perception, belief, and unusual intelligence of its singular heroine in a secret that might try out the mettle of her brain and middle.
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He will not find the ladies so high in the instep as in Kent! We are all easy here! I should set my cap at him myself -- but as he is so old, I do not think there could be any fun in it. " "Minx," Mr. Prowting said fondly. " "Catherine cares nothing for flirtation or good jokes," Ann added with a curl of her lip, "and would not object to so many children, provided she were left in peace with her harp. Lord, Mamma! Only conceive of the look on Jane Hinton's face, when Catherine was presented as the Squire's wife!
It has been some weeks since I was able to trace you through your brother, Mr. " "Good God," I murmured blankly. " I rose from my seat and took a turn about the room, agitation animating my form. "All his papers--! His most intimate accounts--! " "So His Grace conjectured. The Sixth Duke should rather have burnt the lot, than seen such a legacy pass into the hands of a stranger. " At the thought of the outraged peer and his anxieties, I could not suppress a smile. " "Lord Harold, being of a peripatetic habit, formerly made the chambers of Chizzlewit and Pauver the repository of his documents," the solicitor answered primly.
A young lady of your sensibility--" "I am nearly four-and-thirty years of age, good sir, and feel not the slightest anxiety at receiving so respectable a person as Mr. Chizzlewit. " If the servant of the noble and most puissant house of Wilborough was dismayed by the surroundings in which he presently found himself, he did not betray his discomfiture. I seated myself on one of my mother's straight-backed chairs and waited while Mr. Chizzlewit disposed himself in another. With a wordless gesture of his right hand, he had ordered his minions to follow him; they set the curiously-carved chest on the dining-parlour floor and then retreated impassively to await their master's pleasure.