Murderous Regency

Today Captain Ingram's Inheritance comes out in large print. Strictly speaking, it's not a mystery, but it has three attempted murders in it, so it's definitely crime fiction! It's the third of a trilogy, so here's a bit about them all.

The first is Miss Jacobson's Journey. It's a story about smuggling gold across enemy France to Lord Wellington's troops in the Peninsula, to pay the troops. The British government was in despair because the French sank so many of their ships carrying gold for the soldiers. The Rothschilds came to the rescue (true) and Miriam Jacobson got caught up in their schemes (fiction), escorted by two handsome young men who loathed each other.

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Lord Roworth's Reward: Felix Roworth, his father deeply in debt, works as a courier for Nathan Rothschild. After Napoleon's escape from Elba, Felix is in Brussels, awaiting the outcome of the coming battle between the allies and the French. Sharing his lodgings are Fanny and Frank Ingram. Frank, an artillery officer, is badly wounded at Quatre Bras. Felix is torn between his duty to his employer and his desire to help Fanny get Frank to safety in England.

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Captain Ingram's Inheritance: Frank Ingram, seriously injured, is nursed by Lord Roworth's sister, Lady Constantia. He falls in love but, a poor soldier, he can't aspire to her hand, until he hears of an unexpected inheritance. But someone doesn't want Captain Ingram to take possession of his estate...

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e-book (the actual uniform of an artillery officer)