Title Mrs. Jeffries and the merry gentlemen / Emily Brightwell.

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First edition.

Publication Info.

New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2013.

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1587362~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
Nichols Adult Fiction	F BRIGHTWE	AVAILABLE

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Description	277 pages ; 21 cm.
Series	A Victorian mystery
	Brightwell, Emily. Mrs. Jeffries mystery ; 32.
Summary	Orlando Edison is a stockbroker using London's infatuation with foreign mining ventures to make a fortune. He has curried favor with the nation's most respected aristocrats, even inviting three of the most influential investors in England to be part of his latest enterprise. Despite his mysterious past, Edison is now welcomed in the highest circles and moves with ease among the rich and powerful. Yet a few days before Christmas, he is found sprawled across his doorstep, murdered. Why would someone want him dead?
Note	Series title from book jacket.
Subject	Jeffries, Mrs. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
	Witherspoon, Gerald (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
	Women household employees -- Fiction.
	Police -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
	Stockbrokers -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
	Christmas stories.
	London (England) -- Fiction.
	England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre	Mystery fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Victorian mystery fiction.
	Historical mystery fiction.
Added Title	Missus Jeffries and the merry gentlemen
ISBN	9780425268087 (hc.)
	042526808X (hc.)

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