Fidelis Morgan

Fortune's Slave (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 'Morgan's novels are a hoot, and packed to the hilt with parody, drama, luscious costumes and gruesome re-enactments. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780957074354
• Artikelnr.: 38445497

Autorenporträt

Anglo-Irish actress, director and writer, Fidelis Morgan's TV appearances include Jeeves and Wooster, As Time Goes By and the film A Little Chaos. She recently played Agnes Carpenter in Goodbye to Love. Her plays Pamela and Hangover Square won her a Most Promising Playwriting nomination. She has written 20 books, including the ground-breaking The Female Wits, biographies of charismatic women from the 17th and 18th centuries and 6 novels, including the historical mystery series featuring The Countess Ashby dela Zouche. Her last novel was The Murder Quadrille. She was the 2014 Granada Artist-in-Residence at the University of California.