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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780425222522
ISBN number: 0425222527
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: July 01, 2008
Publishing house: Berkley
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INTRODUCING “A FEISTY NEW HEROINE” (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) who’s thirty-fourth in line for the throne—and flat broke.
From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries!
Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. She’s bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where she’ll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRH—oh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name.
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I always enjoy a well written British cozy and this one was a treat. I enjoyed the peek into the well heeled yet not wealthy British aristocracy and their determination to live up to expectations on a frugal budget. The story centers around Lady Georgina who gets her allowance cut off from her brother and she is ill prepared on how to earn funds to support herself. After some failed attempts at gainful employment, she comes up with the idea to start her own "light cleaning" business. She opens and prepares the homes of other wealthy peers of her social class and winds up learning a lot of secrets about them since maids and servants are overlooked. This allows her to do some detecting to clear her brother's name when a less than savory man shows up to claim their family home is found murdered in their London home's bathtub. This is an enjoyable read and I can't wait to read the subsequent installment.
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I decided to try "Her Royal Spyness" because I am such a fan of Rhy Bowen's Molly Murphy mysteries. This series is different but just as good. Compared to the Molly Murphy series, this new series has much more humour & a little less mystery. However, I still found myself hooked, & I love Georgiana, the main character & a minor royal.
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The book was a bit too cavalier in my opinion. I read it at the same time I read Silent as the Grave and so preferred the character development of Lady Julia Gray to the one in Her Royal Spyness. She just seemed a bit sleazy to me
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HER ROYAL SPYNESS (Cozy-Lady Victoria-England-1930s) - G
Bowen, Rhys - 1st in series
Berkeley Prime Crime, 2008, US Paperback - ISBN number: 9780425222522
First Sentence: There are two disadvantages to being a minor royal.
Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie may be 34th in line for the throne, but she is also broke. She is staying at the family mansion, Rennoch House, in London and learning to be self-sufficient.
A disagreeable Frenchman shows up at the door looking for her brother. He claims their father, a gambler who had lost the family fortune, had also lost the family home, Castle Rennoch. Victoria later finds the Frenchman dead in the bathtub and her brother her brother headed back to the Castle. She doesn't believe her brother killed the Frenchman; how she just has to prove it.
This very first book in Ms. Bowen's new series introduces us to a cast of delightful characters. While some seem to be social stereotypes, it's hard not to be drawn to Lady Victoria and her non-titled grandfather, an ex-policeman. In fact, almost the very first half of the book introduces us to the characters. Only after that do we get into the mystery, which is decently done except for way too many coincidences.
The book is a bit too light for my taste, but it is a fun.
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Lady Georgiana is thirty-fourth in line to the English throne, but the distinction of being a royal, albeit a minor one, hasn't kept money woes at bay during the Depression. However, since royals - no matter how minor - aren't supposed to get "common" jobs, Georgiana's only option, according to the Queen, is marriage to the highly repulsive Prince Siegfried. Georgiana resolves to support herself, even if she has to do it clandestinely. And so she decides to work as a maid (horrors!). When a blackmailing Frenchman winds up dead in her bathtub with her brother as the prime suspect, Georgiana decides to use her newfound freedom as an incognito maid to root out the real killer.
Her Royal Spyness is a light, fairly enjoyable (if predictable) read that's heavy on chick lit elements and short on a solid, well-developed mystery. The novel's biggest strength is the character of Georgiana and her often-hilarious attempts to learn basic skills that most people take for granted - such as making one's own breakfast. Bowen also provides some fascinating "insider" glimpses into the royal social scene of the 1930s (such as the royal reaction to the infamous Mrs. Simpson). However, the story falters a bit by being a little too much of a modern chick-lit novel and not enough of a solid historical mystery. The pacing also tends to plod a bit as it gets bogged down in Georgiana's flirtation with a rakish Irishman and her Bridget Jones-style obsession with will-they-or-won't-they jump in the sack. There's too little focus on the murder mystery and the story is in desperate need of some balance. The novel's concept is cute and original - here's hoping sequels build on this foundation and deliver more solid mysteries.
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