Napoleon Must Die by Quinn Fawcett aka Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Mme. Vernet #1)
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 2.4 MB
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte is under siege from Admiral Nelson in his North Africa stronghold, but the real battle in this mystery, a first in a series, is over the fate of Lucien Vernet, the head of the military gendarmes. He is suspected by Napoleon’s chief aide of murdering a marine guard and stealing a priceless pharaonic scepter, the major French spoil of war and symbol of the pasha’s dominion. Against all odds–and the mores of the era–Victoire Vernet, the accused officer’s wife, traipses across Egypt to prove her husband innocent. Along the way she risks death in the pasha’s castle, watches her only female comrade-in-arms die at the hands of an Englishman and narrowly escapes death by diving into the Nile. Unfortunately, the authors (Quinn Fawcett is a pseudonym for Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett) seem to have put more effort into their elaboration on the geography of 18th-century Egypt than into the plot, settling for a solution to the mystery akin to a Napoleonic version of “the butler did it.” Victoire’s character is a bit forced–a likeable if somewhat boring modern feminist in the body of a corseted Napoleonic lady.
Genre: Mystery
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