Bibliograph

The miser of Mayfair, a novel of regency England : being the first volume of a house for the season, M.C. Beaton, Marion Chesney

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The miser of Mayfair, a novel of regency England : being the first volume of a house for the season, M.C. Beaton, Marion Chesney

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The miser of Mayfair

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

M.C. Beaton, Marion Chesney

Sub title

a novel of regency England : being the first volume of a house for the season

Summary

It was the fashion during Regency to hire a house for the Season in Mayfair-the heart of London's fashionable West End-at a disproportionately high rent for sometimes very inferior accommodation. So why is it that Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant season after season? The home of numerous families in the past to whom ill luck-even death-has befallen, Number 67 has been damned as unlucky. In the Miser of Mayfair, salvation seems to come at last in the form of a Mr. Roderick Sinclair, who has confirmed his intentions to let the house for the Season. The staff are overjoyed-until they find that Mr. Sinclair is a terrible miser and is planning no parties. Furthermore, his ward, Fiona, seems not to have a bright idea in her head. Only Rainbird, the clever and elegant butler of Number 67, plots with Fiona to bewitch, bedazzle, and confuse the earl into seeing things their way

Target audience

adult

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