The painted lady / Edward Marston.

By: Marston, EdwardMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Long Preston : Magna, 2007Edition: Large print edDescription: 334 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780750527569 (hbk.); 0750527560 (hbk.)Subject(s): Redmayne, Christopher (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Bale, Jonathan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Architects -- England -- London -- Fiction | Police -- England -- London -- Fiction | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Araminta Jewell is one of the beauties of her day and her marriage to the staid and ugly Sir Martin Culthorpe has not discouraged the rakes of London; though now a wife, she is still pursued with unflagging zeal. It is during her first sitting for a portrait by Jean-Paul Villemot that Christopher Redmayne meets the lovely Lady Culthorpe, but before the portrait can be finished and revealed, Sir Martin is murdered. Christopher joins forces with his friend, the Puritan constable Jonathan Bale, to discover the killer's identity, but with many suspects this will not be an easy case to crack.
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Originally published: London: Allison & Busby.

Araminta Jewell is one of the beauties of her day and her marriage to the staid and ugly Sir Martin Culthorpe has not discouraged the rakes of London; though now a wife, she is still pursued with unflagging zeal. It is during her first sitting for a portrait by Jean-Paul Villemot that Christopher Redmayne meets the lovely Lady Culthorpe, but before the portrait can be finished and revealed, Sir Martin is murdered. Christopher joins forces with his friend, the Puritan constable Jonathan Bale, to discover the killer's identity, but with many suspects this will not be an easy case to crack.

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