Political Death
A Jemima Shore Mystery
Author: Antonia Fraser and Lady Antonia Fraser Series: Jemima Shore
An atmospheric and gripping tale of mystery and scandal set in the build up to an election from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series. Reissued with a new cover for 2014.
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An atmospheric and gripping tale of mystery and scandal set in the build up to an election from Lady Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore series. Reissued with a new cover for 2014.
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Summoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain, Jemima is entrusted with the diaries she kept in 1964, diaries which contain an account of her passionate affair with Burgo Smyth MP; now Foreign Secretary but then a rising young Conservative politician.
With the increasingly eccentric Lady Imogen threatening to reveal details about the affair, and of the subsequent disappearance of a young journalist, Jemima's meeting with Lady Imogen is the first step in a sinister series of events which leads to political scandal, blackmail and murder.Critic Reviews
“Antonia Fraser propels her investigator, Jemima Shore, through these excitements with a sure hand ... A lively, rollicking tale, excellent value-- MAIL ON SUNDAY”
Antonia Fraser propels her investigator, Jemima Shore, through these excitements with a sure hand ... A lively, rollicking tale, excellent value - MAIL ON SUNDAY
About the Author
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She was awarded the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature.
Her previous books include Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles II, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, which won the Wolfson History Prize, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 and The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829. Must You Go?, a memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, was published in 2010, and My History: A Memoir of Growing Up in 2015. She lives in London.Visit Antonia Fraser's website atSummoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain, Jemima is entrusted with the diaries she kept in 1964, diaries which contain an account of her passionate affair with Burgo Smyth MP; now Foreign Secretary but then a rising young Conservative politician.With the increasingly eccentric Lady Imogen threatening to reveal details about the affair, and of the subsequent disappearance of a young journalist, Jemima's meeting with Lady Imogen is the first step in a sinister series of events which leads to political scandal, blackmail and murder.
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