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Stap in de weelderige wereld van Victoriaans Engeland met een mysterieserie rond de charismatische Prins van Wales. Volg de toekomstige Koning Edward VII terwijl hij zich een weg baant door een landschap van misdaad, intriges en de high society. Elke aflevering biedt een spannende duik in zorgvuldig onderzochte historische settings, waar koninklijke scherpzinnigheid sluwe criminelen ontmoet. Perfect voor lezers die houden van historische fictie vermengd met meeslepende detectiveverhalen.

Bertie and the Crime of Passion
Bertie and the Tinman
Bertie and the Seven Bodies

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    Bertie and the Tinman

    • 240bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,2(12)Tarief

    It is 1886 and the greatest of all jockeys, Fed Archer, has put his gun to his head and shot himself. An inquest is arranged with indecent haste. His mind was unhinged by typhoid, say the jury, despite conflicting evidence. The Prince is suspicious. He admired Archer. He knows the Turf better than anyone on that jury and he has personal experience of typhoid. When he learns that Archer’s last words were, “Are they coming?” he decides on action. He will turn his unique talents to solving the mystery and tell us in his inimitable fashion how he does it.

    Bertie and the Tinman
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    Bertie and the Seven Bodies

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen
    3,8(4)Tarief

    The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, a recently widowed young woman, to Desborough Hall for a week-long shooting party. The eleven other motley guests include a poet, a chaplain, and an Amazon explorer. The party promises a week of shooting, socializing, and feasting, but these expectations are soon shattered as one of the guests collapses face first into her dessert and dies before the night is out. At first, this death is believed to be an accident, and the party continues with their hunting plans for the week. But when another guest turns up dead the very next day, Bertie realizes that the deaths cannot be coincidence.

    Bertie and the Seven Bodies
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    Bertie and the Crime of Passion

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen
    3,0(1)Tarief

    Bertie (the future King Edward VII) has a princely appetite for tasty morsels of all kinds. With glorious food and glamorous women equally appealing, it's not surprising that he visits Paris every year, with a modest retinue of some 30 faithful servants. The year 1889, however, marks his most eventful trip. First, he is he introduced to the can-can - that deliciously vulgar new sensation in which he takes, of course, a purely scholarly interest. And second, a murder at a fashionable nightclub allows him to exercise his beloved sleuthing skills, poking the royal nose into showgirls' dressing rooms and all manner of backstage intrigues. With Sarah Bernhardt and Toulouse-Lautrec acting as a dual Dr. Watson, His Highness cannot fail to find a solution to the crime - though no bets as to whether it's the right one. Delightfully humorous . . . no one is more fun than Bertie - Associated Press Tongue-in-cheek satire and wry humor along with an intriguing, entertaining mystery - Booklist

    Bertie and the Crime of Passion