A Most Agreeable Murder (Beatrice Steele, #1)

by Julia Seales

Friendless, single, and dressed in last season’s garb, a fallen woman would therefore be forced to leave the village. Only a morally corrupt city would accept her, and once she made it to Paris, she would surely be robbed by a mime and left for dead.

It is a fact known throughout Swampshire that a rich gentleman is prey hunted by every young woman.

Performing arithmetic * Ladies can perform mathematics for enjoyment but may not invent any new theorems, for this could make a man feel bad about himself because he did not think of it first.