Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume 5

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951041649

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Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume 5 by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

A collection of books 13-15 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries. In Murder in St. Giles, Captain Lacey must clear his bodyguard and former pugilist, Brewster, of murdering a man in the rookery of St. Giles. In Death at Brighton Pavilion, Captain Lacey emerges from a stupor to find himself standing over the dead body of a calvary officer who had once been his bitter enemy. He now must investigate himself for murder. In The Custom House Murders, Lacey is thrust between James Denis and one of his deadly rivals, at the same time he worries that an old army friend has committed murder.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989867702

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The Hanover Square Affair by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

London 1816 Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament. Lacey's search for the girl leads to the discovery of murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. At the same time, he struggles with his own transition from a soldier's life to the civilian world, redefining his role with his former commanding officer, and making new friends--from the top of society to the street girls of Covent Garden.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989867719

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A Regimental Murder by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 2 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries. Returning home through a London night in July 1816, Captain Gabriel Lacey is surprised to see a well-dressed, elegant woman stride to the middle of an unfinished bridge. Following her in curiosity, Lacey is on hand to rescue her from an attack by a footpad. As grateful as she is for the help, the lady refuses to give her name and direction, and so Lacey takes her to his own rooms in a street off Covent Garden to rest. He discovers that she is one Lydia Westin, wife of Colonel Roehampton Westin, who has recently been accused of murdering an English officer in Portugal during the Peninsular War. Before he could come to trial, however, Colonel Westin was found dead at the foot of the staircase in his own house. Lydia Westin, to Lacey’s surprise, declares he was murdered and that she knows the culprits’ identities. Intrigued, Lacey begins to investigate, and soon finds himself mired in scandals past and present, with a journalist dogging his footsteps, eager to print Lacey’s latest adventure.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951041298

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The Custom House Murders by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece, a white queen. The piece tells Lacey nothing, but he soon realizes it plays deeply into Denis’s ongoing battle for control of London’s underworld. Meanwhile Lacey encounters an old army friend just returned from Antigua, who is being accused of smuggling and possibly murder. Lacey decides to help the man, whom he considers honorable, to clear his name. But Lacey is drawn farther into the dark games of James Denis and his rival, until only his wits and memories from his past can save himself and his family from gravest danger. Book 15 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986023897

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A Disappearance in Drury Lane by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 8 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries 1818: As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent. At the same time, Lacey’s personal life is changing, and his time for investigation is frequently and frustratingly interrupted. He is also commanded by a new Bow Street Runner to assist in bringing down James Denis, a criminal with whom Lacey now has complicated ties. Lacey must help or else risk hanging alongside Denis. The search for the actress takes Lacey from elegant assembly rooms to the backstage of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where he finds darkness in all corners. Lacey’s life and honor are constantly challenged as he tries to settle into his new life, until he realizes he can follow no code but his own.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989867733

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The Sudbury School Murders by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 4 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Captain Lacey takes a post as a secretary at the Sudbury School in Berkshire, a school for sons of the wealthiest merchants and bankers in England. He discovers as soon as he arrives that he's been hired for more than his letter-writing skills—a series of disturbing pranks have kept the school in an uproar. The headmaster expects Lacey to discover the identity of the prankster—immediately. Problems intensify when a groom of the school's stables turns up dead in a lock of the nearby canal. A Romany is arrested for the murder, and Lacey is the only person who believes him innocent. As Lacey works to discover what happened, he gets drawn into the secrets of Marianne Simmons, the actress who'd lived upstairs from Lacey in London. Marianne swears Lacey to silence, which puts a new strain on his friendship with Grenville. Meanwhile the intrigue surrounding the murder becomes as murky as the waters of the canal itself and puts Lacey and Grenville into grave danger.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941229811

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The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must deal with his daughter’s come-out and more developments in his new domestic life, including a blackmailer who’s out to ruin Lacey any way he can. Book 10 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989867764

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A Covent Garden Mystery by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 6 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries June 1817: Captain Lacey stops to assist a young woman in the market at Covent Garden, and realizes to his astonishment that she is his daughter. Lacey then discovers that his estranged wife and her paramour, a French officer, have journeyed to London at the invitation of James Denis to dissolve her marriage to Captain Lacey. Meanwhile, a Bow Street Runner and a man from the Thames River Police have asked Lacey to help them look into the disappearances of “game girls” from Covent Garden. The magistrates aren’t interested in their fate, but perhaps Lacey can learn a thing or two. Lacey agrees and recruits old friends to help. But when the goings-on in Covent Garden put his daughter in danger, Lacey’s crusade turns personal. He will do anything, and call in any favor from anyone, in order to protect his own Gabriella.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989867757

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A Body in Berkeley Square by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 5 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries In April 1817, a Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey’s former commander, Colonel Brandon. Instead of denying the charges, Colonel Brandon allows himself to be arrested, and claims, to Lacey’s shock, that the lady he’d stayed protectively near at the ball is his mistress. Lacey realizes that he is the only person not convinced of Brandon’s guilt—all present, including Brandon’s wife, believe Brandon committed the murder. Colonel Brandon’s reticence to tell the truth proves to be Lacey’s greatest obstacle in his race against time to prove Brandon’s innocence. Lacey’s hunt for evidence uncovers dark secrets that go back to the Peninsular Wars and involve the origins of Lacey’s and Brandon’s own private war.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951041427

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A Gladiator's Tale by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

AD 63 Leonidas’s former trainer, Aemil, asks him to look into the disappearances of gladiators from his ludus. Leonidas and Cassia investigate, and soon uncover gruesome murders involving some of the wealthiest citizens of Rome. Leonidas pits his skills against an unknown killer who hunts gladiators from the back lanes of the Subura to prestigious villas atop Rome’s hills. He and Cassia must succeed in uncovering the murderer’s identity before Nero grows impatient and makes Leonidas pay for the chaos the killer has rained down upon his city.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946455017

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Blood Debts by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Leonidas, freedman, once the most popular gladiator in Rome and champion of the games, now must fight for his life outside the arena. A man who owed him money was murdered, and Leonidas is a prime suspect. With the assistance of Cassia, daughter of a Greek scribe who was bestowed upon him as his slave, Leonidas fights for justice in the back lanes of Imperial Rome. Cassia has no idea how to cook and clean or mend and weave, but she is very good at finding things out and writing things down, able to work through a dozen mathematical problems by the time most people can think of a sentence. Knowing both intuitively and empirically that Leonidas is innocent of the murder, she resolves to help clear him of the crime. It’s the least she can do for a man who has proved to be far less brutal than his reputation and who protects all who come within his sphere. And if Leonidas loses, he faces a short, painful future back in the amphitheater, this time without hope of survival. A novella of the Leonidas the Gladiator mysteries.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941229125

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Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Volume 1 by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941229705

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Murder in Grosvenor Square by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 9 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to. With the aid of Lucius Grenville, London’s most famous dandy, and Brewster, a ruffian employed by an underworld criminal, Lacey explores the world of molly houses and the double lives some men of society lead. His investigation takes him from the elegant mansions of Grosvenor Square to the squalid lanes of Seven Dials, to taverns that practice a highly illegal trade, spelling ruin and possible hanging for those caught within. Lacey once again comes into the realm of James Denis, a crime lord, when what appears to be a simple crime of hatred becomes far more complex.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946455406

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Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume 4 by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Enter the dark world of Regency London with three books in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series. The Thames River Murders Captain Lacey is called upon to solve the cold case of a young woman drowned in the Thames years ago, but to do so he must enter a closed world unfamiliar to him. The Alexandria Affair Captain Lacey travels with Grenville to Egypt with Brewster to guard him, and there finds intrigue, murder, and treasure. A Mystery at Carlton House The Prince Regent asks Grenville to have Captain Lacey look into thefts from lavish Carlton House, but James Denis threatens Lacey to have nothing to do with it. Join Captain Lacey, Grenville, Lady Breckenridge, Denis, Brewster, and more these three tales of Regency England.

Author : Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley
Publisher : Jennifer Ashley
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989867726

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The Glass House by Ashley Gardner,Jennifer Ashley Pdf

Book 3 of the Captain Lacey Mystery Series On a cold January night in 1817, former cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey is summoned to the banks of the Thames to identify the body of a young woman. When Lacey looks down at the pretty, dead young woman, cut down too soon, he vows to find her murderer. Lacey's search takes him to the Glass House, a sordid gaming hell that played a large part in the victim's past, as well as to gatherings of the haut ton and the chambers of respectable Middle Temple barristers. Lacey uncovers secrets from the highborn and the low, finds himself drawn deeper into the schemes of a crime lord, and explores his tenuous new friendship with Lady Breckenridge.