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020    9781250178398|q(hardcover) 
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082 00 813/.6|223 
092    |fF|aMONTCLAI 
100 1  Montclair, Allison,|eauthor. 
245 12 A royal affair /|cAllison Montclair. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bMinotaur Books,|c2020. 
300    320 pages ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks 
       and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau
       are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor 
       of a royal princess in Allison Montclair’s delightful 
       second novel, A Royal Affair.  In London 1946, The Right 
       Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the
       proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn 
       Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary
       to handle the growing demand. Unfortunately, they don't 
       yet have the necessary means. So when a woman arrives—a 
       cousin of Gwen's—with an interesting and quite 
       remunerative proposition, they two of them are all ears.  
       The cousin, one Lady Matheson, works for the Queen in 
       "some capacity" and is in need of some discreet 
       investigation. It seems that the Princess Elizabeth has 
       developed feelings for a dashing Greek prince and a 
       blackmail note has arrived, alluding to some potentially 
       damaging information about said prince. Wanting to keep 
       this out of the palace gossip circles, but also needing to
       find out what skeletons might lurk in the prince's closet,
       the palace has quietly turned to Gwen and Iris. Without 
       causing a stir, the two of them must now find out what 
       secrets lurk in the prince's past, before his engagement 
       to the future Queen of England is announced. And there's 
       more at stake than the future of the Empire —there is 
       their potential new office that lies in the balance.  
600 00 Elizabeth|bII,|cQueen of Great Britain,|d1926-|vFiction. 
650  0 Extortion|vFiction. 
655  7 Biographical fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
830  0 Sparks & Bainbridge ;|v02.