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Death, Diamonds, and Deception

#5 in series

by Rosemary Simpson
Sarah Zimmerman
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Fall 1889: Lady Rotherton has arrived from London intent on chaperoning her niece Prudence through a New York social season to find a suitable husband. It's certainly not her niece's devilishly handsome partner in Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law. Aunt Gillian's eye for eligible suitors is surpassed only by her ability to discern genuine gems from nearly flawless fakes. At the Assembly Ball at Delmonico's, she effortlessly determines that the stones in the spectacular diamond waterfall necklace adorning the neck of the wife of banker William De Vries are fake.

Insisting on absolute discretion to avoid scandal, the banker employs Prudence and Geoffrey to recover the stolen diamonds pried out of their settings—priceless stones acquired by Tiffany, originally purchased for Marie Antoinette. Their search for a possible fence rapidly leads to a dead end: a jeweler brutally killed in his shop during an apparent theft.

The jeweler's murder is only the first in a string of mysterious deaths, as Prudence and Geoffrey pursue their elusive quarry. But the clues keep leading back to duplicity on the part of the De Vries family, who, it turns out, have a great deal to hide . . .

  • Creators

  • Series

    Gilded Age Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 24, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781494539894
      • File size: 294184 KB
      • Duration: 10:12:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 26, 2020
      In Simpson’s satisfying fifth Gilded Age mystery (after 2019’s Death Brings a Shadow), Lady Rotherton, Prudence MacKenzie’s redoubtable aunt married to an English peer, visits New York hoping to persuade her unconventional niece to make a respectable marriage. At the first high-society ball of the season, Lady Rotherton guesses that some of the diamonds in society matron Lena De Vries’s necklace are fake. Her assessment is subsequently confirmed, and William De Vries, Lena’s banker husband, hires former Pinkerton agent Geoffrey Hunter and Prudence, his investigative partner, to discover who replaced the gems. Soon after they find the jeweler most likely to have fenced the stones shot to death, one of the De Vries’ valets dies in an apparent suicide. William believes that Lena’s son by her first marriage, Morgan Whitley, persuaded the valet to help him tamper with the jewels. Though Whitley’s alcohol and gambling addictions leave him desperate for money, Prudence doubts that the young man is to blame. Simpson blends a briskly paced investigation with well-chosen Gilded Age details. Fans of Victoria Thompson and Alyssa Maxwell will be pleased. Agent: Jessica Faust, BookEnds Literary.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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