false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174342700m/383514.jpg 383514 4 The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth in line for the throne, she has been taught only a few things, among them, the perfect curtsey. But when her brother cuts off her allowance, she leaves Scotland for London, where she has: a) worked behind a cosmetics counter-and gotten sacked after five hours b) started to fall for a quite unsuitable minor royal c) made some money housekeeping (incognita, of course), and d) been summoned by the Queen to spy on her playboy son. Then an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family's 800-year-old estate for himself, winds up dead in her bathtub. Now her most important job is to clear her very long family name. 2309133 book 25 6 2007 Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries #1) total:589|5:81|4:234|3:229|2:41|1:4| 589 2114 875 179 4 2 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 22:08:42 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 22:09:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 02 08:36:06 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 08:36:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 30 10:02:53 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:03:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:57:15 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:57:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 16:57:38 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 16:57:56 -0700 2009
Most times my predilection for buying books based on cute covers comes back to bite me in the behind, but every once in a while I turn the last page feeling enormously pleased with myself.

Thi...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 21:14:05 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 21:17:32 -0700 2009 This is the start of a new fetish: Lady mysteries. I've listed a few before, Deanna Raybourn being my fave, so I downloaded the fi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:11:31 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 10:58:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 07:55:05 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:11:15 -0700 2009 Of course, the castle is drafty, the silver forks lift nothing better than baked beans, and the prince has no throne and no sex appeal. From...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 14:26:23 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 14:26:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 05:49:29 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 07:53:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 10:48:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 12:05:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 03 17:43:56 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 17:50:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:51:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:59:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 05:47:19 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 05:55:05 -0700 2009 . . . it went down way too easy;
. . . it was sugary but very satisfying;
. . . it was most definitely a guilty pleasure; and
. . . it was a sin I would repeat.

The heroine was irreverent, funn...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 19:33:42 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 20:45:11 -0700 2007 ]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 11:12:20 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 11:17:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 22:14:16 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 09:55:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 16:44:53 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 17:29:54 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 07:42:28 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 07:43:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 07:54:01 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 07:55:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=383514