India Black in the City of Light (Novella) (A Madam of Espionage Novella) by Carr Carol K

Author:Carr, Carol K. [Carr, Carol K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Keep reading for a special excerpt from Carol K. Carr’s next Madam of Espionage Mystery . . .

INDIA BLACK AND THE GENTLEMAN THIEF

Coming in paperback February 2014 from Berkley Prime Crime!

At that moment, I’d have given anything to have a rapier in my hand. I’d have used it to fillet French. I believe the poncy bastard knew it, too, for he was casting about the room for a means of escape.

Now I ask you, after scattering a nest of anarchist vipers and nabbing one of Tsar Alexander’s best agents and finally settling down to a glass of champagne with a chap you’ve had your eye on for donkey’s years and that same fellow has finally discovered that indeed you are a woman and a deuced fine one at that, I ask you, is it fair that all this bliss should disappear like so much fairy dust? Damned right, it’s not fair. One moment I was admiring the dark, lithe figure of French and calculating how many glasses of champagne it would take before I could carry the bloke off to bed, and the next I was contemplating a missive from that maddening old trout, the Dowager Marchioness of Tullibardine, informing me that the object of my affection (French, in the event you had forgotten) was well informed about the murky past of yours truly.

Dedicated readers of these memoirs will recall that ever since the marchioness had informed me that she had known my mother, screeching out this information at a train station in Perth as her carriage pulled away, I had been attempting to find out just what the wretched woman knew. Her correspondence had been evasive until this letter.

I quote her message here, so you’ll appreciate just how much kindling the marchioness had dumped on this particular fire.

Dear Miss Black,

If you want to know about your mother, ask French.

Sincerely yours,

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