The Music Hall Murder: A Ruby Redlick Historical Mystery - Couverture souple

Johnson, Tracy Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1734421339 ISBN 13 : 9781734421330

Editeur : Ikigai Press, 2021

Synopsis

Italian anarchists, suffragettes and a maharajah’s stolen emeralds - the London music hall can be murder!

London, 1909

Ruby Redlick is a young woman with a passion for reading, who yearns to break free of her constrained life in Upper Norwood and go on the stage. She dreams of playing dramatic characters like her idol Sarah Bernhardt. But the West End is packed with lords, predators and courtesans and Ruby almost comes a cropper. A new friend comes to the rescue and introduces her to the music hall as a Gaiety Girl.

Swept up into the bright lights of 1900s Edwardian London, she's barely navigated the Stage Door Johnnies when an Indian Maharajah's fabulous jewels are stolen and a murder occurs. The police, who seem more interested in rooting out foreign spies, close the case abruptly. Ruby is compelled to follow another idol, Mr Sherlock Holmes, in some amateur sleuthing. With the help of Soho's Italian anarchists, a foreign royal and a couple of militant suffragettes, she investigates the crime.

Ruby unravels the complicated web of deceit but when she comes a little too close to exposing the criminal’s deadly secret, her own life is put in peril. Will she find a way to bring about justice before it's too late?

The Ruby Redlick mysteries are set in London and the scandalous resort of Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, where all of European nobility and American oligarchy came to play. Travel back in time to the belle époque to a British era of decadence, before the entire world came crashing down in devastating loss. Join Ruby in meeting a cast of real life characters and events, as a strong female detective sleuth dives into a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy. Fans of Downton Abbey, Maisie Dobbs and Posie Parker will relish Ruby Redlick.

Join me at www.tracyjenniferjohnson.com where I explore more history of the real life characters, all glamorous, flamboyant and notorious, who populate the Ruby Redlick mystery series. Books do not need to be read in order but may be better enjoyed as the series proceeds through the growth of spies and espionage during the World War and then the Roaring 1920s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ikigai Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1734421339
• ISBN 13: 9781734421330
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 358
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