The Gentleman's Walking Stick
42 pages
|Published: 9 Sep 2011
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ISBN: 2940013014299
Format: Nook
Language: English
Publisher: Jennifer Ashley
Publication date: 9 September 2011
Description
London, 1817 An anthology of two short stories of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries.In The Gentleman's Walking Stick, Lacey untangles a web of deceit involving a respectable society man, his only clue being a missing walking stick. (This story first appeared in the Regency fiction magazine, The Reticule in 2000.)In The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald, Lacey is asked to locate a man's missing daughter, though he senses that the family will be just as happy for her to remain missing.The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald was nominated for a Derringer Award for best short mystery in the year 2000. The story first appeared in Over My Dead Body! Mystery Magazine in Summer, 2000.The first story runs 6000 words; the second, 5000 words. While these are standalone stories, the events fall in the series timeline anytime after The Sudbury School Murders.