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Marion Chesney

Our Lady of Pain

By Marion Chesney - Published 2006

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The fourth installment in this post-Edwardian mystery series finds Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart still pretending to be engaged to spare ...Read Review

Sick of Shadows

By Marion Chesney - Published 2005

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Mystery/Crime

Chesney continues the adventures of Lady Rose Summer and her fiancé of convenience, private investigator Captain Harry Cathcart, in the third installment of ...Read Review

Hasty Death

By Marion Chesney - Published 2004

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Mystery/Crime

Hasty Death is the second in Chesney’s new Edwardian mystery series featuring Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart. Headstrong Lady Rose, ...Read Review

Snobbery with Violence

By Marion Chesney - Published 2003

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Mystery/Crime

This is the debut novel in veteran author Chesney’s new Edwardian mystery series. At its center is the detective duo of Lady ...Read Review

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Marion Chesney

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Sick of Shadows

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Snobbery with Violence

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