Fortune's Slave
2005
First Published
4.19
Average Rating
455
Number of Pages
Part of Series
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. Soon banking leads to begging, burglary, and strange bedfellows—including an aspiring novelist with a grievance and a hirsute dwarf of astounding agility.
Avg Rating
4.19
Number of Ratings
75
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Fidelis Morgan
Author · 7 books
Actor, writer, director and historian, Fidelis Morgan is the author of a series of mystery novels featuring the Countess Ashby dela Zouche and a cast of outrageous characters. The books have been described as ‘A 17th century Armistead Maupin’, ‘Flashman for Girls’ ‘A bawdy PG Wodehouse’ and ‘Cagney and Lacey in Corsets.’ She has published many influential non-fiction works, mainly about the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her latest suspense novel, The Murder Quadrille, is a modern day mystery. It is available as an eBook
