Yield Not to Misfortune
Suzanne Downes
When Cadmus H Underwood
is asked to look into the case of Lydia Woodforde, he knows from the
outset that it is not going to be an easy mystery to solve.
The young lady in question was kidnapped by her father at the age of five and kept from her grieving mother for twenty years.
Now
she has returned, conveniently just as she is due to inherit a vast
fortune left by her grandfather. Mrs Woodforde is happy to welcome home
the prodigal with open arms, but she is cautioned by her friend Lady
Hartley-Wells, who points out that they have no proof that Lydia is who
she says she is, or that her father is now dead as she claims.
Underwood
is given the task of investigating both Lydia and her supposedly
deceased father and their life in Barbados from whence the young woman
has just arrived, bringing her black slave Sabrina with her,
scandalizing Hanbury society, who are suddenly made aware that though
slavery has been outlawed in England, it still holds sway in the
Colonies.
In the meantime Underwood has also been asked by the
crippled Waterloo veteran Jeremy James Thornycroft, to help the man who
saved his life. Rutherford Petch has been found guilty of stealing a
valuable diamond necklace from his Great Aunt Jemima and has been
transported to Australia for seven years. Thornycroft is utterly
convinced that the man who saved him from certain death on the
battlefield could not possibly sink so low as to steal from his own
family.
Underwood agrees to take both cases, but he cannot know that
the greed of three men is to bring him to the brink of death and even
those who are closest to him most face the loss of their beloved Cadmus.
is asked to look into the case of Lydia Woodforde, he knows from the
outset that it is not going to be an easy mystery to solve.
The young lady in question was kidnapped by her father at the age of five and kept from her grieving mother for twenty years.
Now
she has returned, conveniently just as she is due to inherit a vast
fortune left by her grandfather. Mrs Woodforde is happy to welcome home
the prodigal with open arms, but she is cautioned by her friend Lady
Hartley-Wells, who points out that they have no proof that Lydia is who
she says she is, or that her father is now dead as she claims.
Underwood
is given the task of investigating both Lydia and her supposedly
deceased father and their life in Barbados from whence the young woman
has just arrived, bringing her black slave Sabrina with her,
scandalizing Hanbury society, who are suddenly made aware that though
slavery has been outlawed in England, it still holds sway in the
Colonies.
In the meantime Underwood has also been asked by the
crippled Waterloo veteran Jeremy James Thornycroft, to help the man who
saved his life. Rutherford Petch has been found guilty of stealing a
valuable diamond necklace from his Great Aunt Jemima and has been
transported to Australia for seven years. Thornycroft is utterly
convinced that the man who saved him from certain death on the
battlefield could not possibly sink so low as to steal from his own
family.
Underwood agrees to take both cases, but he cannot know that
the greed of three men is to bring him to the brink of death and even
those who are closest to him most face the loss of their beloved Cadmus.
Рік:
2015
Мова:
english
ISBN:
B00W0IVGMG
Файл:
EPUB, 299 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2015
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