It has been three weeks since we eliminated both milk and bread from my sister Bernadine’s diet. Now that you can picture me, let me relay some news. Even with a fire in the room, the tea gown by itself is still too insubstantial a garment for this time of the year.
Yes, I am wearing my very first tea gown, which you kindly gifted me at Christmas.Īlas, I had to put on a dressing gown over this fuchsia splendor. I’ve portrayed my usual sybaritic setting, you say? Why, patience, my old friend.įor what do I see when I look down but enough lace and frill to astonish Louis XIV himself, an eruption of white foam upon a wildly pink sea.
I am seated at the desk in my room, a cup of hot cocoa to my left, and a plate of still-warm plum cake to my right. Baxter’s arrival and I will have Sherlock Holmes ready to receive him.” Chapter One He took a deep breath and waved away the secretary.
De Lacey needed to check everything he’d done since becoming de Lacey to make sure he hadn’t made any mistakes that would bring down Mr. Visits to Britain typically did not please Mr. Baxter wished to get rid of the woman, not to undertake a formal visit.Īn interview followed by a bullet or a strangling? But that was not de Lacey’s concern. If anything, De Lacey would have thought that Mr. An excerpt will be posted after the book has been copyedited.)Īnd Sherlock Holmes-or Charlotte Holmes, rather-had been under surveillance since Christmas. (Audiobook links will come later as audiobook recording cannot begin until text is finalized. Is it merely to test Charlotte’s skills as an investigator, or has the man of shadows trapped her in a nest of vipers? And Charlotte’s longtime friend and ally Lord Ingram at last turns his seductive prowess on Charlotte-or is it the other way around?īut the more secrets Charlotte unravels about Miss Moriarty’s disappearance, the more she wonders why Moriarty has entrusted this delicate matter to her of all people. Meanwhile, Charlotte’s sister Livia tries to make sense of a mysterious message from her beau Mr. Watson travel to a remote community of occult practitioners where Moriarty’s daughter was last seen, a place full of lies and liars. Moriarty fears that tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth.Ĭharlotte and Mrs. Charlotte Holmes comes face to face with her enemy when Moriarty turns to her in his hour of need, in the USA Today bestselling series set in Victorian England.Ī most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes’s doorstep: Moriarty himself.
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