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Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but, unfortunately, has been raised in the most snobbish and haughty of families. And when her father gambles away their fortune - including Mannerling, the exquisite family mansion - Isabella discovers that there is very little sympathy for her plight. As the eldest, Isabella is chosen to court Mr. Judd, the roguish bachelor who won Mannerling. Surely no sacrifice is too great to regain Mannerling? But tempting her away from Mr. Judd is Lord Fitzpatrick....

As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, Lucy Bliss was told she'd make an excellent clergyman's wife. Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically, the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. Lucifer Wardshire! Why, he was rumoured to be as wicked as the devil, with orgies and mistresses and worse! As the London Season unfolded, Lucy couldn't decide who was more abominable, her vulgar mama or the arrogant yet disconcertingly handsome duke.

A woman of independent means with a healthy dose of cynicism about the male persuasion, Harriet Tremayne is content with her circle of spinster friends and their devotion to literature, women's rights, and intellectual interests. However, when she determines to undertake a London Season for her beautiful but featherbrained niece, she concedes she must appear less a bluestocking and more fashionable to successfully sponsor this impossible young lady whose only real desire, it seems, is to consume chocolate.

Just when he'd fobbed off the last brat, another appeared to take her place! Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss from schoolroom to marriage mart that he had sworn off women altogether. The current ward was far and away the worst. Cheeky as only a French girl could be, Yvonne de la Falaise had surely sent her papa to an early grave with her melodramatics and mischief. Thank goodness for her governess, Patricia Cottingham, so calm, so competent.

As the youngest of four unmarried vicar's daughters, Frederica feared her destiny was to die of boredom in the sleepy village of Barton Sub Edge. Her looks were deemed unfortunate, and her wilful manner labelled her difficult. She never dreamt the arrival of a stranger would be a twist to her fate. But Frederica and the worldly gentleman from the city, Lord Granton, had something in common: boredom. So it was that the two formed a secret friendship.

Arranging a season for an unruly young lady whose habit was to enter drawing rooms by sliding down banisters presented a challenge at best - especially since the hoydenish Mira had a sister of incomparable grace and beauty. Mira wasn't daunted at all by the local society and its ridiculous marriage mart. Her heart belonged to Lord Charles, who had been the object of her dreams ever since she was a child. Alas, Charles had eyes only for her ever-perfect sister, Drusilla.

At age twenty-three, the petite Lady Margery has alreadygraced the rows of wallflowers for many a season. With the one exception ofCharles, the Marquess of Edgecombe and the only man who ever dances with her, Lady Margery will have nothing to do with men; what's more, she does not evenparticularly like Charles. Bored beyond words, she firmly decides this is the end of itall and returns to the comfort of her only love, her home at Chelmswood. Butshe does not find comfort even there.

Followers of the series will notice in this volume some personality changes in the odd assortment of retainers who keep the infamous house at 67 Clarges Street, in London’s Mayfair, at the ready for whatever entrepreneur will rent it as a launching pad into the London social season. This time the renters are an unlikely couple, the Goodenoughs, apparently father and daughter; she a great beauty, he silent and mysterious. Their secrets eventually become known to the downstairs troupe, but the indomitable butler Rainberd rallies the support forces.

Jenny Sutherland is pretty, but the lovely country girl is also vain. Her guardian has decided that a London season is just the thing to give the fair Jenny a sorely deserved set-down. Meanwhile, the handsome Duke of Pelham, owner of 67 Clarges Street, has returned from Europe at last - to find a wife. Used to women doting on him, the Duke turns the ton against the disdainful Jenny who dares to spurn him at her very first London soiree. Alas, he’s fallen in love with the miss he’s just ruined!

Che cosa c'è di più innocuo di una grande festa paesana nel pittoresco scenario dei Cotswolds? Agatha decide di rilassarsi concedendosi una bella grigliata a Winter Parva, presso Carsely. Non può immaginare che sarà il prologo al suo prossimo caso... Gary Beech è un poliziotto dei Cotswolds assai zelante: nessuno riesce a sfuggire alle grinfie del suo libretto delle contravvenzioni. Certo Gary non è amato, ma dal risentimento ad arrivare a ucciderlo, decapitarlo e cuocerlo allo spiedo durante un sagra ce ne passa.

Une nouvelle enquête pour Hamish Macbeth... lui seul pourra mettre le véritable meurtrier sous le feu des projecteurs.

Une nouvelle enquête pour Hamish Macbeth... lorsque maux de dents et cadavre ne font pas bon ménage.

Une nouvelle enquête pour Hamish Macbeth... trouvera-t-il le coupable avant que celui-ci ne finisse son grand ménage ?

Des Highlands à Amsterdam, entre stupéfiants et monstres marins, le plus grand danger pour Hamish sera-t-il de tomber à l'eau... ou de tomber amoureux ?

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with—crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn’t want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city of Chicago in the United States, supposedly to study policing methods in Scotland.

Quelque chose ne tourne pas rond dans le village écossais de Stoyre. Lors d'une visite de routine, Hamish Macbeth trouve le pub vide, l'église étonnamment pleine et les ouailles animées d'une étrange ferveur. La maison de retraite l'inquiète aussi : en échange de moyens de paiement pour le moins douteux, elle propose des services très efficaces, à en juger par le taux de mortalité... explosif !

Après "Agatha Raisin" et "Hamish Macbeth", la nouvelle série incontournable de M.C Beaton ! Belle et rebelle, telle est Lady Rose. Après s'être compromise avec les suffragettes, au grand désespoir de ses parents, la jeune fille de bonne famille fait une entrée désastreuse dans la haute société londonienne... Ce qui ne dissuade pas un Sir aux allures distinguées de lui faire les yeux doux. Très louche, selon le père de Lady Rose, qui charge le capitaine Harry Cathcart, aristocrate désargenté, d'en savoir plus sur le prétendant.

Décidément insoumise, Lady Rose refuse de faire comme toutes les jeunes filles de son rang : elle ne se mariera pas ! Pire, elle veut quitter la maison pour gagner sa vie. My god ! Ses parents finissent par céder à ses extravagances, sachant que le détective Harry Cathcart la chaperonne. Mais la vie de femme indépendante n'est pas aussi excitante que Rose l'avait imaginé.

Lady Rose Summer, la débutante indocile, jurerait ses grands dieux qu'elle n'est pas jalouse. Après tout, elle sait que ses fiançailles avec le capitaine Harry Cathcart ne sont qu'un stratagème pour empêcher ses parents de l'envoyer aux Indes y trouver un mari. Mais lorsque Dolores Duval, aux formes aussi irrésistibles que son petit accent français, se fait un peu trop remarquer aux côtés de Harry, le sang de Lady Rose ne fait qu'un tour.

Lady Rose Summer est prête à tous les subterfuges pour vivre sa vie comme elle l'entend. En simulant des fiançailles avec le capitaine Harry Cathcart, elle évite d'être envoyée aux Indes afin d'y trouver un bon parti. Pour faire totalement illusion, elle va jusqu'à prendre sous son aile Miss Dolly Tremaine, une jeune débutante, lors d'un bal. Avant de découvrir sa protégée poignardée au fond d'une barque. Il n'en faut pas moins pour réveiller le flair policier de notre rebelle.