Edwardian Murder Mysteries · Book 1
Snobbery with Violence
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9780792740247
- Type
- novel
About this book
Snobbery with Violence (2003, 226 pages) launches the series with Lady Rose Summer using a house party as cover to investigate anarchist plots and a suspicious death, pairing her from the start with Captain Harry Cathcart, a penniless former army officer whose competence and steadiness she comes to rely on more than any of her official suitors.
Its place in Edwardian Murder Mysteries
Snobbery with Violence is book 1 in the Edwardian Murder Mysteries series. It is followed by Hasty Death. See the full Edwardian Murder Mysteries reading order.
Before she became known primarily for Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth, M.C. Beaton wrote four Edwardian-set mysteries following Lady Rose Summer, a strong-willed debutante who keeps landing in the middle of murder investigations instead of the marriage market her mother has planned for her, and Captain Harry Cathcart, a penniless former army officer working as a private inquiry agent because his title doesn't come with any money. Snobbery with Violence opens with Rose using a house party as cover to investigate…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780792740247