The Westminster Intrigue

Author : Tracy Grant
Publisher : NYLA
ISBN 13 : 1641972149
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Intrigue written by Tracy Grant and published by NYLA. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn 1820. From Mayfair to Covent Garden to Seven Dials, London is in an uproar over George IV's (the former prince regent) attempts to divorce his wife Queen Caroline. And nowhere is the crisis more intense than in Westminster where the royal divorce is playing out in the House of Lords. In this tense atmosphere, former spies Malcolm and Mélanie Rannoch go on an undercover mission in a brothel that leads to a brawl--and the murder of the man they were tracking. The victim, Captain James Blayney, was selling the memoirs of a notorious courtesan, whose lovers may include Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and key noblemen involved in the royal divorce trial. The missing memoirs may also hold crucial information about the Elsinore League, the powerful organization the Rannochs have been battling for years. As revelations mount, Malcolm and Mélanie uncover the secretsof some of the most powerful people in Europe. The future of the British monarchy hangs in the balance. But as the Rannochs unravel the clues in the memoirs, they realize that the consequences for the royal family may be nothing compared to the consequences for their own...

Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755350197
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 1) written by Paul Doherty and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the reign of Edward II, where murder was part of the tapestry of life... The first in Paul Doherty's series featuring Mathilde of Westminster is played out against the glorious, violent and decadent court of Edward II where ghosts throng, and old sins and innocent blood cry to heaven for vengeance. Perfect for fans of Susanna Gregory and Michael Jecks. By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry of life. Many years later, Mathilde looks back and chronicles her turbulent life. With her sharp, suspicious intellect ready to distinguish between a fatality and an unnatural death, Mathilde is confronted by a host of chilling murders. The source of these horrors is the fierce political rivalry between Philip of France and Edward of England. This manifests itself in a series of gruesome killings, one of which actually took place during Edward II's Coronation, when a knight of the Royal Household, Sir John Baquelle was crushed to death... What readers are saying about The Cup of Ghosts: 'Doherty has created a vivid and credible picture of life at the royal court' 'There are very few authors who can even come close to matching Doherty' 'Cup of Ghosts is a beautifully written novel, bringing fact and fiction together in a believable story of murder, intrigue, desire for power and passion in a time when violence and murder was a way of life'

Author : D. M. Loades
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intrigue and Treason written by D. M. Loades and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Elizabeth and Henry VIII dominant, the Tudor world still captures the popular imagination today. Yet how did the court change from Henry's ruggedly masculine environment to Elizabeth's feminine world? This book meticulously analyses events from the school room of Edward, through Mary and Philip's reign and right through to the era of Elizabeth's loving virgin circle. It charts how the court changed through a series of plots, affairs and religious rollercoasters that sent seismic waves reaching to the heart of the royal family.For readers interested in the early monarchy.

Author : Tracy Grant
Publisher : NYLA
ISBN 13 : 1641972084
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Carfax Intrigue written by Tracy Grant and published by NYLA. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1820. Britain’s former prince regent, now George IV, is determined to divorce his estranged wife, Queen Caroline, and the coming trial is the talk of London, from Mayfair to Westminster to Seven Dials, dredging up scandalous details and pitting Whigs against Tories in a battle for power. When former spies Malcolm and Mélanie Rannoch learn their enemies in the mysterious Elsinore League are trying to sell letters that could prove key at the trial, the Rannochs are determined to intercept these vital papers before they can be used against Queen Caroline. The exchange is to take place in the candlelit splendor of Carfax House, at the first ball Malcolm and Mélanie’s friends Julien and Kitty are giving in their new roles as Lord and Lady Carfax. But Malcolm and Mélanie aren’t the only ones determined to intercept the letters. Amidst a night of champagne and waltzing, Mélanie and Malcolm find themselves entrapped in an intrigue that may be as deadly as any they faced in the Napoleonic Wars...

Author : Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Queens At the Abbey written by Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two Queens At the Abbey" by Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Magazine, Or, The Pantheon of Taste written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Little, Brown UK
ISBN 13 : 9780751539554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Poisoner written by Susanna Gregory and published by Little, Brown UK. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Gregory, author of the Matthew Bartholomew series of medieval mysteries, has created another compelling fictional detective set in Restoration London. -------------------------------------------- The fourth adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series. Christopher Vine, a Treasury clerk working in solitary piety in the Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, is not alone. A killer waits in the draughty hall to ensure Vine will not live to see in the New Year. And Vine is not the only government official to die that season. The Lord Chancellor fears his enemies will skew any investigation to cause him maximum damage, so he decides to commission his own inquiries into the murders and, with his suspicions centred on Greene, another clerk, he instructs Thomas Chaloner to prove that Greene is the killer. Chaloner can prove otherwise, but unravelling the reasons behind his employer's suspicions is as complex as discovering the motives for the killings. His search for the real murderer plunges him into a stinking seam of corruption that leads towards the Royal apartments and to people determined to make Christmas 1663 Chaloner's last . . . 'Pungent with historical detail' (Irish Times) 'A richly imagined world of colourful medieval society and irresistible monkish sleuthing' (Good Book Guide) 'Corpses a-plenty, exciting action sequences and a satisfying ending' (Mystery People)

Author : Robert Pattison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365038
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Vulgarity written by Robert Pattison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka lives on in the lyrics of Talking Heads. Rock is vulgar, Pattison notes, and vulgarity is something that high culture has long despised but rarely bothered to define. This book is the first effort since John Ruskin and Aldous Huxley to describe in depth what vulgarity is, and how, with the help of ideas inherent in Romaniticism, it has slipped the constraints imposed on it by refined culture and established its own loud arts. The book disassembles the various myths of rock: its roots in black and folk music; the primacy it accords to feeling and self; the sexual omnipotence of rock stars; the satanic predilictions of rock fans; and rock's high-voltage image of the modern Prometheus wielding an electric guitar. Pattison treats these myths as vulgar counterparts of their originals in refined Romantic art and offers a description and justification of rock's central place in the social and aesthetic structure of modern culture. At a time when rock lyrics have provoked parental outrage and senatorial hearings, The Triumph of Vulgarity is required reading for anyone interested in where rock comes from and how it works.

Author : The Westminster Review January-April 1841
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Review written by The Westminster Review January-April 1841 and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: