TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,Rosemary
TI  - Death, diamonds, and deception
T2  - A Gilded Age mystery
SN  - 9781496722126
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Kensington Books
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jewelry theft
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Sequel to: Death brings a shadow
N2  - "Fall 1889: Lady Rotherton has arrived from London intent on chaperoning her niece Prudence through a New York social season to find a suitable husband. It's certainly not her niece's devilishly handsome partner in Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law. Aunt Gillian's eye for eligible suitors is surpassed only by her ability to discern genuine gems from nearly flawless fakes. At the Assembly Ball at Delmonico's, she effortlessly determines that the stones in the spectacular diamond waterfall necklace adorning the neck of the wife of banker William De Vries are fake. Insisting on absolute discretion to avoid scandal, the banker employs Prudence and Geoffrey to recover the stolen diamonds pried out of their settings - priceless stones acquired by Tiffany, originally purchased for Marie Antoinette. Their search for a possible fence rapidly leads to a dead end: a jeweler brutally killed in his shop during an apparent theft. The jeweler's murder is only the first in a string of mysterious deaths, as Prudence and Geoffrey pursue their elusive quarry. But the clues keep leading back to duplicity on the part of the De Vries family, who, it turns out, have a great deal to hide . . ."--Publisher
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