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    A Gentleman of Fortune: The unputdownable historical whodunnit

    By Anna Dean

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    Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece's missing fiancé and the body in the bushes at Belsfield Hall, she is finding her quiet holiday at her cousin Flora's home rather unchallenging to say the least. So when a neighbour dies suddenly, leaving her entire estate to her young nephew, Miss Dido can't help but be suspicious. But is her over-active imagination making her look for murder where there is none?


    With dirty dealings and death amongst Richmond's upper classes, Miss Dido Kent is ideally placed to observe her neighbours' behaviour, and as she does so, she brings more to light than even she could have imagined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateMar 7, 2011
    ISBN9780749010713
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    A Gentleman of Fortune: The unputdownable historical whodunnit
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    Anna Dean

    ANNA DEAN began writing early on under the impression that everyone was taught to do so in order to pen books. By the time she discovered her mistake, the habit was too deeply ingrained to give up. The author of Bellfield Hall, A Gentleman of Fortune, A Woman of Consequence, and A Place of Confinement, Dean lives in England.

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    • 3/5
      Once again, this begins with a letter to her sister Eliza, which I found boring & skipped...... I realize her letters to her sister provide background to the mystery & her thoughts, but I've found that I can easily do without them.

      Miss Dido Kent (spinster & smart-cookie) is now staying w/ her cousin on "holiday" and she is overcome by "ennui" until a neighbor is found dead and another (most obnoxious) neighbor begins malicious gossip that it is murder committed by the dead woman's nephew.

      Miss Dido Kent is happily surprised to find her gentleman friend, Mr. Lomax, has arrived and enlists his help in uncovering the truth of the old woman's death.

      There are several aside mysteries: the previous tenants of the dead woman's home, a break-in, the dead woman's visitors (of which she usually never had any), an emerald necklace, and a dead dog.... several of which were never cleared up.

      It was fast reading and mildly entertaining...... I'm not sick of her yet, so I'll read another!
    • 5/5
      It's Richmond, 1806 and Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries.This is the second book in this cozy mystery series and it is a very cozy mystery indeed. The pace is slow and gentle and you get a really good feel for the place and time the book is set in. It was interesting to watch the developments in Dido and Mr. Lomax's relationship, and her thought processes behind what she is doing and why, and it's value. The mystery was interesting though I felt it a bit over complicated in the end. Still, it was fun to watch it unfold and it did feel somewhat believable...at least in the setting of this book if not the real world. I didn't care for the ending, it felt a bit forced, but it does set up a complication for future books so...So far this series has been a fun, pleasant and easy read and I am looking forward to more.
    • 4/5
      Slow moving, well constructed Regency mystery where an unmarried woman (with all that implies for that time) looks at the possible murder of an older woman .

      Enjoyable story. Interesting heroine with interesting, hidden
      relationships that come out in a small community.

      Second book in the series. I'll look forward to the next one.
    • 4/5
      With some qualifications on the character development front (hello Flora's husband, where art thou? among others), this tricky murder peels like an onion and gets better as it goes along. Dido Kent is coming along nicely. Make him sweat!