The Rival Queens: A Novel of Murder in Eighteenth-Century London

Scavenging Restoration London for scandals that can keep them afloat, the impoverished Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her faithful maidservant, Alpiew, stumble across a murder at a philosophy lecture hall and discover an abundance of suspects, whom they investigate with the help of Samuel Pepys. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.