Hasty Death: An Edwardian Murder Mystery (Edwardian Murder Mysteries) - Tapa blanda

Eager to seek her independence and become self-supporting, Lady Rose Summer leaves her parents' home to join the working class, but she is forced to put her new life on hold and rejoin London high society when one of her acquaintances turns up dead and Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard enlist her aid to uncover a devious blackmail plot. Reprint.

SECRETS TO DIE FOR
Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to become self-supporting by moving out with her maid Daisy and going to work in trade. On advice from Captain Harry Cathcart-a noble-born private investigator who knows the independent-minded Rose all too well-the Earl and Countess of Hadshire agree to let Rose work as a typist and live in a women's hostel. It isn't long before Rose realizes that life as a working woman isn't quite what she imagined...or before she inadvertently discovers that recently-murdered playboy Freddy Pomfret was a blackmailer. In order to investigate properly, Rose must now return to London high society's glittering, treacherous rounds. And from elegant London townhouses that conceal ugly secrets to a tranquil country estate where danger lurks along every path, she and Harry will follow a trail of deception, rumors, and devious plots-even as a singularly calculating killer prepares to end the rebellious Lady Rose's sleuthing for good.

"Fans of the author's Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mysteries, written under the name M.C. Beaton, will welcome this new series of historical whodunits."
-Booklist