The Perfect DaughterThe Perfect Daughter
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Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, 1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed, No Longer Available.Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, 1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsVerona North was all a girl should be at nineteen - talented, brave, and attractive, with the world opening out in front of her. But only a few months after leaving home to study art in London, she was found hanging in the family boathouse - dead from an apparent suicide.
It seems that their perfect daughter had plunged rapidly from respectability to drugs, depravity, and left-wing politics. To her father, a respectable naval officer, there is no doubt who's to blame: his cousin the suffragette, Nell Bray. Nell is sure she's not responsible, yet a sense of guilt at not having paid more attention to the young girl sets her on a trail to discover what really happened in the weeks leading up to Verona's death.
Nell's search takes her from an enclave of Bohemian anarchists in Chelsea to an old, run-down shop full of mysterious sea charts and maps. Piecing together clues, Nell soon discovers that Verona was leading a double life full of dangerous secrets. Was her death really a suicide, or a cover-up for murder?
Suffragette and amateur sleuth Nell Bray investigates the death of her young cousin, who had returned home from art school pregnant, with her body full of morphine, and discovers that the girl had been leading a double life as a friend to Bohemian anarchists and a spy for the secret service.
Nell Bray investigates the death of her young cousin, who returned home from art school pregnant and on drugs, and discovers that the girl has been leading a double life as a friend to Bohemian anarchists and a spy for the secret service.
It seems that their perfect daughter had plunged rapidly from respectability to drugs, depravity, and left-wing politics. To her father, a respectable naval officer, there is no doubt who's to blame: his cousin the suffragette, Nell Bray. Nell is sure she's not responsible, yet a sense of guilt at not having paid more attention to the young girl sets her on a trail to discover what really happened in the weeks leading up to Verona's death.
Nell's search takes her from an enclave of Bohemian anarchists in Chelsea to an old, run-down shop full of mysterious sea charts and maps. Piecing together clues, Nell soon discovers that Verona was leading a double life full of dangerous secrets. Was her death really a suicide, or a cover-up for murder?
Suffragette and amateur sleuth Nell Bray investigates the death of her young cousin, who had returned home from art school pregnant, with her body full of morphine, and discovers that the girl had been leading a double life as a friend to Bohemian anarchists and a spy for the secret service.
Nell Bray investigates the death of her young cousin, who returned home from art school pregnant and on drugs, and discovers that the girl has been leading a double life as a friend to Bohemian anarchists and a spy for the secret service.
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- New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001, c2000.
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