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Synopsis
The complete trilogy of the MWA Grand Master's Victorian mystery series featuring future King Edward VII, Albert 'Bertie' Edward, Prince of Wales. These three novels feature future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Charming, delightful, deftly plotted: exactly what you'd expect from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Peter Lovesey.
The trilogy begins with Bertie and the Tin Man, when a jury rules that the death of a popular jockey known as the Tinman had been suicide, the Prince of Wales suspects murder and at great personal risk, investigates the crime (even though his sleuthing skills aren't, let's say, the best). In Bertie and the Seven Bodies, the guest list of a shooting party begins to dwindle rapidly as one high society member after another turns up dead, but Bertie greets the murders with a certain delight, as they allow him to exercise his passion for amateur sleuthing. Finally, the series ends in 1891 with Bertie and and the Crime of Passion, which finds the Prince on his annual vacation in Paris. When he learns of a mysterious death at the Moulin Rouge, he takes it upon himself to solve the case.
Synopsis
The Complete Prince of Wales Mysteries collects all three of Peter Lovesey's charming and thrilling Bertie adventures in a single volume for the first time.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales--Bertie, as he's known--is the eldest son of Queen Victoria and future King Edward VII. Bertie is a pleasure seeker, always searching out the best meals, the most beautiful women, and the most lavish parties. As Prince Regent, Bertie is expected to behave like a proper royal and avoid scandal. Instead, his love of excitement leads him to a decidedly unprincely hobby: sleuthing. Bertie is not the best detective, but that does not stop him from trying to solve every case that crosses his path, including
the feverish suicide of the greatest jockey of the century, the mysterious death of a member of the royal hunting party, and the murder of the son-in-law of an old friend.