Fortune's Slave

Mystery & Suspense, Women Sleuths, Fiction & Literature, Historical
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Author: Fidelis Morgan ISBN: 9780957074354
Publisher: Fidelis Morgan Publication: March 3, 2017
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Fidelis Morgan
ISBN: 9780957074354
Publisher: Fidelis Morgan
Publication: March 3, 2017
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Fourth in Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew

Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess finds herself with cash to spare. Unlikelier still, she decides to do the sensible thing and invest it, caught up in London society's new craze for stocks and shares. Overnight, fortunes are being made, wealth amassed from nothing in a frenzy of speculation. And with these new-found riches anything can be bought: commodities, monkeys…even people.

But as the Countess and Alpiew learn to their cost, investments can go down as well as up – helped along by a little embezzlement from those bastions of respectability, bankers and brokers. Soon banking leads to begging, burglary, and strange bedfellows – including an aspiring novelist with a grievance and a hirsute dwarf of astounding agility.

'Morgan's novels are a hoot, and packed to the hilt with parody, drama, luscious costumes and gruesome re-enactments. Hangings, shootings, dismemberings and a glorious lack of morality abound. Morgan is adept in contrasting her characters with their surroundings and with each other... She brings dank, disease-ridden London vividly to life, with great humour... The Countess and Alpiew are comic creations of genius. Morgan's roller-coaster romp of a novel is a hard act to follow.' The Herald

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Fourth in Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew

Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess finds herself with cash to spare. Unlikelier still, she decides to do the sensible thing and invest it, caught up in London society's new craze for stocks and shares. Overnight, fortunes are being made, wealth amassed from nothing in a frenzy of speculation. And with these new-found riches anything can be bought: commodities, monkeys…even people.

But as the Countess and Alpiew learn to their cost, investments can go down as well as up – helped along by a little embezzlement from those bastions of respectability, bankers and brokers. Soon banking leads to begging, burglary, and strange bedfellows – including an aspiring novelist with a grievance and a hirsute dwarf of astounding agility.

'Morgan's novels are a hoot, and packed to the hilt with parody, drama, luscious costumes and gruesome re-enactments. Hangings, shootings, dismemberings and a glorious lack of morality abound. Morgan is adept in contrasting her characters with their surroundings and with each other... She brings dank, disease-ridden London vividly to life, with great humour... The Countess and Alpiew are comic creations of genius. Morgan's roller-coaster romp of a novel is a hard act to follow.' The Herald

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