Wouldn't it be deadly : an Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins mystery /
Ireland, D. E.
Wouldn't it be deadly : an Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins mystery / D.E. Ireland. - First edition. - 320 pages ; 22 cm
"A Thomas Dunne book." Subtitle from jacket.
"Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins becomes Scotland Yard's prime suspect. However, Eliza learns that most of Nepommuck's pupils had a reason to murder their blackmailing teacher. As another suspect turns up dead and evidence goes missing, Eliza and Higgins realize the only way to clear the Professor's name is to discover which of Nepommuck's many enemies is the real killer"--
1250049350 (hbk.) 9781250049353 (hbk.)
2014027071
Characters and characteristics in literature--Fiction.
College teachers--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910--Fiction.
London (England)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Wouldn't it be deadly : an Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins mystery / D.E. Ireland. - First edition. - 320 pages ; 22 cm
"A Thomas Dunne book." Subtitle from jacket.
"Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins becomes Scotland Yard's prime suspect. However, Eliza learns that most of Nepommuck's pupils had a reason to murder their blackmailing teacher. As another suspect turns up dead and evidence goes missing, Eliza and Higgins realize the only way to clear the Professor's name is to discover which of Nepommuck's many enemies is the real killer"--
1250049350 (hbk.) 9781250049353 (hbk.)
2014027071
Characters and characteristics in literature--Fiction.
College teachers--Crimes against--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910--Fiction.
London (England)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.