The Resource The secret heiress : a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception, Luke Devenish
The secret heiress : a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception, Luke Devenish
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- Summary
- Victoria, Australia, 1886...and 1903. Dark shadows fall across two golden summers, seventeen years apart. When beautiful Matilda Gregory, mistress of Summersby House, dies in mysterious circumstances her will brings to light an extraordinary deception - and a terrible wrong from the past. Summersby has a secret heiress, whose name is also Matilda Gregory, a strange, ethereal girl with an irrevocably broken memory. Grieving Samuel Hackett seems somehow linked to his fiancee's death but a pact made with Barker, Summersby's scheming butler, proves effective in silencing tongues. The two men return the second Matilda to her inheritance - and set off a series of puzzling events
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The secret heiress : a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception
- Title
- The secret heiress
- Title remainder
- a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception
- Statement of responsibility
- Luke Devenish
- Subject
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- trueAustralian
- Deception -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueInheritance and succession
- Heiresses -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueFormer fiances
- Victoria -- Fiction
- trueHousehold employees
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction
- trueHeirs and heiresses
- trueDeception
- Household employees -- Fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- trueHistorical mysteries
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueWills
- Wills -- Fiction
- trueTeenage girls
- trueAristocracy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Victoria, Australia, 1886...and 1903. Dark shadows fall across two golden summers, seventeen years apart. When beautiful Matilda Gregory, mistress of Summersby House, dies in mysterious circumstances her will brings to light an extraordinary deception - and a terrible wrong from the past. Summersby has a secret heiress, whose name is also Matilda Gregory, a strange, ethereal girl with an irrevocably broken memory. Grieving Samuel Hackett seems somehow linked to his fiancee's death but a pact made with Barker, Summersby's scheming butler, proves effective in silencing tongues. The two men return the second Matilda to her inheritance - and set off a series of puzzling events
- Summary
- Naive country girl Ida Garfield longs to escape the farm. When Miss Matilda Gregory, the elegant mistress of Summersby House, offers Ida employment as a housemaid, Ida leaps at the chance. Yet it’s not for her servant’s skills that she’s wanted. But before Ida starts her first day, Miss Gregory is found dead. A tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception
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- 10629881
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Devenish, Luke
- Dewey number
- 823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Household employees
- Deception
- Heiresses
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- Wills
- Interpersonal relations
- Victoria
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception
- Label
- The secret heiress : a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception, Luke Devenish
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000053440751
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 425 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781922052155
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891680330
- Label
- The secret heiress : a tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception, Luke Devenish
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000053440751
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 425 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781922052155
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891680330
Subject
- trueAristocracy
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction
- trueAustralian
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueDeception
- Deception -- Fiction
- trueFormer fiances
- Heiresses -- Fiction
- trueHeirs and heiresses
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical mysteries
- trueHousehold employees
- Household employees -- Fiction
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- trueTeenage girls
- Victoria -- Fiction
- trueWills
- Wills -- Fiction
Genre
- trueAustralian fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical mysteries
- trueParallel narratives
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