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    The Worth of Rubies: A Victorian Short Mystery
    The Worth of Rubies: A Victorian Short Mystery
    The Worth of Rubies: A Victorian Short Mystery
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    The Worth of Rubies: A Victorian Short Mystery

    By Anthea Lawson

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    Noble ladies are falling victim to a string of brazen public jewelry robberies, but the inquisitive Miss Isabelle Strathmore suspects more is afoot than mere theft...

    A Victorian-set short mystery of approx. 5,000 words.

    Includes a bonus chapter of Anthea's RITA-nominated Victorian romantic adventure, PASSIONATE.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFiddlehead Press
    Release dateJan 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301670963
    The Worth of Rubies: A Victorian Short Mystery

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      Book preview

      The Worth of Rubies - Anthea Lawson

      The Worth of Rubies, - a Victorian Short Mystery

      with bonus chapter of PASSIONATE

      By Anthea Lawson

      Noble ladies are falling victim to a string of brazen public jewelry robberies, but the inquisitive Miss Isabelle Strathmore suspects more is afoot than mere theft…

      TABLE OF CONTENTS:

      THE WORTH OF RUBIES

      PASSIONATE bonus chapter

      OTHER WORKS by Anthea Lawson

      ABOUT the AUTHOR

      Smashwords Edition Copyright 2013 Anthea Lawson

      Cover photo by Serg Zastavkin, background by Nataliia Bezditna

      Images via fotolia. Used with licensed permission.

      Discover more Anthea Lawson at http://www.anthealawson.com

      Anthea also writes Young Adult fantasy as Anthea Sharp – http://www.antheasharp.com

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or re-licensed. Please don’t pirate. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. To obtain permission to excerpt portions of the text, please contact the author at anthea@anthealawson.com.

      All characters in this story are fiction and figments of the author’s imagination.

      QUALITY CONTROL: We care about producing error-free books. If you find a typo or formatting problem, send a note to anthea@anthealawson.com so that the error may be corrected.

      The Worth of Rubies

      A Regency Short Mystery

      by

      Anthea Lawson

      London, 1848

      It was an astonishingly warm night, for May. Isabelle Strathmore sat on the velvet-upholstered chair beside her mother and plied her fan, trying not to breathe too deeply of the perfume-rank air in Lady Frampton’s salon. At least the windows were open, letting in the occasional waft of breeze.

      The heat and closeness of the room did not seem to trouble her brother, Richard, the star performer of the evening’s musicale. He played the piano confidently, the bittersweet strains of Chopin’s Farewell Waltz curling around the two-dozen or so listeners. The ones who were awake, at any rate.

      A pity so many of the gentry could not appreciate good music. The gaslight sconces had been extinguished, leaving only a candelabra beside the piano. The dimness, combined with the warmth, had proved too much for some of the gathering’s less-enthusiastic listeners. Isabelle had counted three distinct snores within ten minutes of the program’s commencement.

      Richard would play Beethoven next, and roust the sleepers. She smiled at the thought.

      Another bit of breeze managed to slip in

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