An unexpected peril
(2021)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/MYSTERY/RAYBOURN,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/MYSTERY/RAYBOURN,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021
©2021
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

519 pages (large print) ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781432887100, 1432887106 :, 1432887106, 9781432887100
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Thorndike Press large print basic"

"London, 1889. As Veronica Speedwell assembles a memorial exhibition for a pioneering mountain climber, she discovers that the recent death was really murder. Veronica and her beau, Revelstoke Templeton-Vane, tell the patron of the exhibit, Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, of their findings. But Gisela's chancellor does not want to make waves -- and then, the princess disappears. Having noted Veronica's resemblance to the princess, the chancellor begs her to pose as Gisela for the sake of the peace treaty that brouthg the princess to England. Veronica and Stoker must try to keep the treaty intact while navigating unwelcome advances and assassination attempts." -- page [4] of cover

"January, 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club - an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women - Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles a memorial exhibition for pioneering mountain climber Alice Baker Greene, Veronica discovers evidence that the recent death was not a tragic climbing accident but murder. Veronica and her natural historian beau, Stoker, suddenly find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving a peace treaty, a princess, and a murderer"--