About this title: In this historical novel Lord John Grey is shocked to discover that the man engaged to his beloved niece might have an incurable venereal disease. While investigating the man's past, Lord John is also called upon by the crown to investigate the murder of a soldier who may have been a spy. The character of Lord John Grey first appeared in Diana ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Delta
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780385337489ISBN:0385337485
Description: Very Good. First printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Slight cover wear with minor scuffing to edges. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
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Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
"I was nervous about this. Given that in the Outlander books, the evil people seem to be overwhelmingly gay, I was worried that the author simply has a hangup about it and this one was going to reflect that. I was pleasantly surprised though!
It was a good read, and the Holmesian mystery aspect of it was a nice departure from the Outlander books as well. (I love them, but it was nice for this series to have its own "thing".)
I think if you like the Outlander books for the historical fiction, these are enjoyable too. If you're in it for the romance or the time travel, maybe not so much."
"Maybe it's a case of bad writing, bad galleys, of bad narration or, any combination (or all) of the above, but there were several problems with this audiobook. A perfect example is the scene in which the Catholic widow and the Protestant mistress of a deceased soldier are arguing over the funeral rites. In the scene as delivered, the Catholic woman believes that her husband has been consigned irrevocably to Hell while the Protestant woman believes that her lover's soul is in Purgatory, able to be helped by intercessionary prayers. Either DG got her dogmas mixed up; the typesetter separated lines that should have come from the same person ("pronoun trouble") or, JW cast the wrong voices. Even after listening to the scene three times over, I could not decipher what went wrong. Later on in the book, the protagonist ruminates on the Catholic idea of purgatory, believing that as intercessionary prayers can assist the soul in limbo, so too can results from the departed person's actions can have repercussions that would promote or demote the same soul. While I'm no theologian, I have been a Catholic for a long time, and I'm pretty sure that is NOT how it works! This little bit of theological misinformation I lay squarely at DG's feet. JW's character voices were sometimes sloppy: He sometimes lost the accent of the character he was reading and often lost the delineation between characters in dialogue. At other times, JW didn't drop into "parenthetical voice" to indicate that the character was thinking rather than actually speaking, which made dialogues in the book difficult to negotiate."
"Putting modesty aside for the sake of logic, he blushed to admit that this conclusion was based as much on Trevelyan's lack of response to his own person as to anything else. Such men as himself lived in secrecy- but there were signals, nonetheless, and he was adept at reading them. Lord John Grey; army major and sodomite. His colonel relieves him of other duties to investigate the death of Sergeant Tim O'Connell (suspected spy). He also must come up with a reason to break off his cousin's engagement to a wealthy businessman after discovering he is poxed. An enjoyable mystery set in Georgian England - where being gay meant staying well and truly in the closet."
"Well, I'm not at all impressed with this book; Gabaldon seemed to just phone this one in. As I said earlier, if you didn't know the character from the Outlander series then there was nothing here that would make you want to read more about him. This side of John Grey just didn't seem interesting .. didn't seem much like the character he was in the Outlander series. Also the storyline here was weak and kinda jumped all over the place. I don't think she really knew where she wanted to go with the story, or what she wanted it to be. I don't think I'll be bothering to read any more of this series."
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