Cynthia Peale's The Death of Colonel Mann PDF

By Cynthia Peale

ISBN-10: 0385496362

ISBN-13: 9780385496360

ISBN-10: 0440613981

ISBN-13: 9780440613985

at the back of the curtained home windows of Victorian Boston is a global of ardour, scandal ... and murder.

In existence, he used to be the main despised guy in Boston, writer of the town's scurrilous gossip sheet -- and client and vendor of people's such a lot scandalous indiscretions. Now Colonel William d'Arcy Mann lies at the ground of his stylish resort suite, the sufferer of a unmarried gunshot wound to the heart.

Addington Ames got here to recuperate a packet of affection letters written by way of his younger cousin, Val, that had fallen into the blackmailing colonel's ownership. but if he discovers Mann's corpse in its place, Ames all of sudden unearths himself on the heart of a homicide inquiry, his identify splashed around the city newspapers.

With Val dealing with public shame -- at the eve of marriage to an impeccable member of Brahmin society -- Ames's basically desire is to discover the damning missives, which he believes vanished with the killer. With assistance from his sister, Caroline, and their boarder, Dr. John MacKenzie, he strikes via Boston's so much renowned social circles looking for a well-concealed assassin whose ultimate act of violence will go away no lifestyles -- highborn or low -- untouched...

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