
Death and the Visitors
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1814: Foreign diplomats are descending on London in advance of the Congress of Vienna meetings to formulate a new peace plan for Europe following Napoleon's downfall. Mary and Jane's father, political philosopher William Godwin, is hosting a gathering with an advance party of Russian royal staff. The Russians are enthusiastic followers of Mary's late mother, philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, which leads to a lively dinner discussion.
Following their visit, Jane overhears her father reassuring his pushiest creditor that the Russians have pledged diamonds to support his publishing venture, the Juvenile Library, relieving his financial burden. But when Godwin is told the man who promised the diamonds was pulled from the River Thames, his dire financial problems are further complicated by the suspicion that the family may have been involved in the murder.
Stepsisters Mary and Jane resolve to find the real killer to clear the family name. Coming to their aid is Godwin's disciple, the dashing poet Percy Shelley, who seems increasingly devoted to Mary, despite the fact that he is married. And a young woman Jane befriends turns out to be the mistress of the celebrated poet-and infamous lover-Lord Byron.
As both sisters find themselves perhaps dangerously captivated by the poets, their proximity to the truth of the Russian's murder puts them in far greater peril . . .
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- Intro
- Also by
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1
- Jane
- Chapter 2
- Mary
- Chapter 3
- Jane
- Chapter 4
- Mary
- Chapter 5
- Jane
- Chapter 6
- Mary
- Chapter 7
- Jane
- Chapter 8
- Mary
- Chapter 9
- Jane
- Chapter 10
- Mary
- Chapter 11
- Jane
- Chapter 12
- Mary
- Chapter 13
- Jane
- Chapter 14
- Mary
- Chapter 15
- Jane
- Chapter 16
- Mary
- Chapter 17
- Jane
- Chapter 18
- Jane
- Chapter 19
- Mary
- Chapter 20
- Jane
- Chapter 21
- Mary
- Chapter 22
- Jane
- Acknowledgments
- BOOK CLUB READING GUIDE for Death and the Visitors
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