ISBN: 1429968222 9781429968225

Category: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical

Page count: 304

<p> <b>"This wonderful mystery is rich in suspense, period detail, humor and most of all characters. They come alive, and none more than Miss Dido Kent." —Louise Penny, #1 <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling author</b> </p> <p>1805. An engagement party is taking place for Mr. Richard Montague, son of wealthy landowner Sir Edgar Montague, and his fiancée Catherine. During a dance with his beloved, a strange thing happens: a man appears at Richard's shoulder and appears to communicate something to him without saying a word. Instantly breaking off the engagement, he rushes off to speak to his father, never to be seen again.</p> <p>Distraught with worry, Catherine sends for her spinster aunt, Miss Dido Kent, who has a penchant for solving mysteries. Catherine pleads with her to find her fiancé and to discover the truth behind his disappearance. It's going to take a lot of logical thinking to untangle the complex threads of this multi-layered mystery, and Miss Dido Kent is just the woman to do it.</p> <p> <b>"Beautifully written. Characters one cares about immediately and a mystery which becomes more urgent with every page." —Anne Perry, <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling author</b> </p> <p> <b>"Anna Dean has captured the tricky business of presenting a clever and resourceful woman, hedged in by a tight-laced society, who turns those limitations to her own benefit. Decorative and thoughtful, <i>Bellfield Hall</i> is a worthy addition to the historical crime tradition." —Laurie R. King, <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling author</b> </p> <p> <b>"Dean's prose captures the spirit of nineteenth-century England, and in Dido Kent, whose keen powers of observation are matched by her sharp deductive reasoning, she has created an exemplary investigator." — <i>Booklist</i> </b> </p>