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A curious beginning : a Veronica Speedwell mystery

2015

Format:	Book
Author:	Raybourn, Deanna.
Title:	A curious beginning : a Veronica Speedwell mystery / Deanna Raybourn.
Publisher, Date:	New York : New American Library, [2015]
Description:	339 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:	"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker--a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth"-- provided by publisher.
Series:	Raybourn, Deanna. Veronica Speedwell mystery ; 1.
Subjects:	Orphans -- Fiction. Young women -- Fiction. Kidnapping -- Fiction. Rescues -- Fiction. London (England) -- 19th century -- Fiction. England -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre:	Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.
LCCN:	2015009286
ISBN:	9780451476012 0451476018 0451476026 9780451476029
Other Number:	905089469
System Availability:	7
Current Holds:	0
Control Number:	1905841

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Author Biography

Deanna Raybourn is the author of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Lady Julia Grey series, currently in development for television, as well as the USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award nominated Veronica Speedwell Mysteries and several standalone works. - (Penguin Putnam)

Deanna Raybourn, the author of the award-winning New York Times bestselling Lady Julia Grey series and several standalone novels, is pleased to introduce her new Victorian-set mystery series featuring Veronica Speedwell. Deanna lives in Virginia with her husband and daughter. - (Random House, Inc.)

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