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An ultimatum from her strict guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, forces lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson to abandon her capricious and flirtatious nature and act the part of a perfectly well-bred young woman.

Lovely, wealthy and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion - but all her efforts seem doomed to failure.

Lady Rose Summer, a wayward Edwardian debutante, finds herself a key murder suspect after she is found standing over the dead body of her fianc's seductive new client.

An Edwardian murder mysteryLady Rose Summer's father calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate his daughter's fianci. After a public and scandalous break-up, Rose attends a soirie for aristocratic women with dubious matrimonial prospects - where a guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Rose and Harry investigate, and find that danger is a lot easier to attract that an appropriate suitor.

The second in Chesney's Edwardian mystery series features Captain Cathcart, Lady Summer, and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard as they investigate the crimes of Edwardian aristocrats.

Charles and Fanny became engaged because of their mistaken belief that the other was rich. Now they are determined to find better matchs for each other.

Poor country girl Harriet Clifton goes to London to spend the Season with her rich, widowed sister Cordelia. The scheming Cordelia has set her sights on the Marquess of Arden, and when he falls in love with Harriet, will stop at nothing to conquer him.

Lady Charteris, a lovely young widow, agrees to abide by her parents' wishes and marry Comte Jules Saint Pierre, a man whom she has never met