This book is dedicated with love to my son, Tom Stevens

 

 

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

Many thanks to Paul Cox of the National Portrait Gallery in London for his kindness and generosity in showing me the various likenesses, both authenticated and non-authenticated of George Bryan Brummell held by the Gallery.

 

Real historical personages appear in the Beau Brummell mystery series. They are:

 

George, Prince of Wales
The Duke of Clarence
The Duke of York (and his mistress, Mary Anne Clarke)
Frederica, the Duchess of York
Viscount Petersham
Lady Salisbury
Robinson
John Lavender
Scrope Davies
Edmund Kean
Poodle Byng
Lumley Skeffington
Lord Yarmouth
Old Dawe
Juan Floris of Floris’s (which is still in London today)
W. Griffin, the sedan chair maker
Weston, the famous tailor
Meyer, tailor
Guthrie, tailor

 

The Beau Brummell Mysteries are:

DEATH ON A SILVER TRAY

THE TAINTED SNUFF BOX

THE BLOODIED CRAVAT

MURDER IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS

 

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Copyright © 2000 by Rosemary Stevens

Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime [0425174689]

Electronically published in 2012 by Belgrave House/Regency Reads

 

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This is a work of fiction. All names in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental.