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    Petty Treason: A Sarah Tolerance Mystery

    By Madeleine E. Robins

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    Welcome to Miss Tolerance's Regency London, where nothing is what it seems and the only way to serve justice is to follow conscience rather than law.

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom.

    Miss Sarah Tolerance refuses to follow the path of the Fallen Women who have gone before her. She's a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword.

    Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, a private investigator of sorts--the sole one of her kind in London, in this year of 1810 with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as his Regent. Her aim was to trace lost trinkets, send wastrel husbands back to their wives, and occasionally provide protection to persons with more money than sense--but she is continually drawn into the plots of others.

    Her newest case poses a puzzle unlike any she has faced before: who killed the Chevalier d'Aubigny? The French émigré was beaten to death in his own bed, found by his retainers the next morning, all the doors and windows of the house sealed tight. The murder is a classic locked-room mystery, but Miss Tolerance knows she can find the key.

    As Miss Tolerance examines the situation and interviews witnesses and suspects, she realizes things are far more complicated than she originally suspected--for the Chevalier had more enemies than he had friends, and Miss Tolerance is hard pressed to find someone who didn't wish him dead. Her search for his killer takes her from the lowest brothels of the seedy London underworld, where men go to indulge their more aggressive desires, to the Royal Family and a Duke who must hide his perversions or risk the Throne.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 30, 2006
    ISBN9781466806665
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    Madeleine E. Robins

    Madeleine E. Robins is certified as an actor combatant in rapier, quarterstaff, broadsword, and hand-to-hand fighting, and was a member of a troupe of actors who perform Shakespeare scenes with combat for high schools and Renaissance festivals. Madeleine is a New Yorker by birth, training, and inclination, but recently relocated to San Francisco, where she now lives with her husband (Emmy Award-winning sound editor Danny Caccavo), and their two daughters. She authored the New York Times Notable Book The Stone War, several Regency romances, many short stories, and the mystery series featuring Miss Sarah Tolerance, Agent of Inquiry.

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    • 4/5
      Nicely done and original. Getting tired of the constant Fallen Woman term used as a descriptor, though. Will try to ignore it,
    • 4/5
      This is the sequel to [book: Point of Honor], and once again Miss Sarah Tolerance (basically Elizabeth Bennett in rather different circumstances) must navigate through treacherous London to solve a mystery. After a much disliked gentleman is murdered in his bed, Miss Tolerance is called upon to solve the mystery. But there are too many suspects--the brutalized wife, the many men owed money, the victims of blackmail. The mystery itself is interesting, but what I really love about these books is how belieavable and fully characterized the characters, communities and city are.
    • 3/5
      The first book in this series grabbed my attention because of the alternate history element. The mystery was fine, but I was more interested in the world-building that took place. With this second book, though there is a deeper exploration of relationship between two of the main characters, there is relatively little that is new in terms of alternate history. The mystery itself was well rounded, but again, I was looking for more exploration of this other England. The stories of both books remind me a bit of the Anne Perry ones, which I stopped reading after a while because of the sameness of plot. I think I may leave this series for a bit as well, unless I hear there has been something drastically interesting that takes place.Rounding up to 3 stars.
    • 3/5
      A good second outing for Fallen Women Sarah Tolerance, in a Regency England just slightly askew from our own. Robins is thoroughly grounded in the Regency period, and her books are prime examples of how to do historical fiction right. Her grasp on plotting and pacing is not quite so sure: she telegraphs her twists well ahead of time and could have brought the book to a close many pages earlier if Miss Tolerance had gone to the magistrate with her evidence sooner.
    • 4/5
      Sarah investigates the murder of the husband of a woman, the woman is the prime suspect but there are many other possible culprits for the job.The more I read of Sarah the more I like her. She's a solid character who is likeable and you can see how the author has done her best to study the period and come up with a character who is firmly rooted in the period but still struggling with her survival as a fallen woman.