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The traitor in the tunnel / Y.S. Lee.
Mary Quinn poses as a domestic in Queen Victoria's royal household in order to catch a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. While she is there, a murder occurs, and Mary learns that the accused killer may be someone close to her. Meanwhile, a trespasser is making illicit use of the sewers beneath the palace, and Mary works with former flame James Easton to solve the case.
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- ISBN: 0763653160
- ISBN: 9780763653163
- Physical Description: 373 p. --
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
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| General Note: | "A Mary Quinn mystery"--Cover. |
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Historical fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Ordered by Queen Victoria to work undercover as a domestic when a petty thief begins stealing from Buckingham Palace, Mary Quinn receives unwanted attention from a feckless Prince of Wales, wonders at a murder suspect's shared name with her long-lost father and struggles with her feelings for engineer James Easton. - Baker & Taylor
When Mary Quinn is ordered to work undercover after a petty thief steals from Buckingham Palace, she receives attention from a prince, wonders at a murder suspect's shared name with her father, and struggles with her feelings for James Easton. - Random House, Inc.
Get steeped in suspense, romance, and high Victorian intrigue as Mary goes undercover at Buckingham Palace â and learns a startling secret at the Tower of London.
Queen Victoria has a little problem: thereâs a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency puts quickwitted Mary Quinn on the case, where she must pose as a domestic while fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales. But when the prince witnesses the murder of one of his friends in an opium den, the potential for scandal looms large. And Mary faces an even more unsettling possibility: the accused killer, a Chinese sailor imprisoned in the Tower of London, shares a name with her long-lost father. Meanwhile, engineer James Easton, Maryâs onetime paramour, is at work shoring up the sewers beneath the palace, where an unexpected tunnel seems to be very much in use. Can Mary and James trust each other (and put their simmering feelings aside) long enough to solve the mystery and protect the Royal Family? Hoist on your waders for Maryâs most personal case yet, where the stakes couldnât be higher â and she has everything to lose.
