The Frown of Fortune

A Luke Tremayne Adventure...A French Affair 1653

Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Thrillers
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Author: Geoff Quaife ISBN: 9781466978492
Publisher: Trafford Publishing Publication: February 6, 2013
Imprint: Trafford Publishing Language: English
Author: Geoff Quaife
ISBN: 9781466978492
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication: February 6, 2013
Imprint: Trafford Publishing
Language: English

In 1653 Cromwell sent Luke Tremayne and his deputy Harry Lloyd to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled King Charles II. After a serious mishap to Luke, Harry is forced to complete the mission alone. Luke is nevertheless gainfully employed by a wealthy French aristocrat the Marquis des Anges to investigate the murder of his first wife and the attempted murder of his second. Harry assists the English courtiers to solve the murder of two young ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother Henriette Marie, and together with a Royalist peer is falsely imprisoned and tortured. He escapes and after many life threatening adventures is rescued on the orders of Frances chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Meanwhile Lukes investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, a Canadian adventurer, a rampaging bear and a mysterious treasure of English Catholic gold and silverinvestigations that provoke a series of fatal bombings. Harrys determination to find and exact revenge on a renegade French aristocrat responsible for his torture leads him eventually to the French chateau where Luke is pursuing his villains.

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In 1653 Cromwell sent Luke Tremayne and his deputy Harry Lloyd to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled King Charles II. After a serious mishap to Luke, Harry is forced to complete the mission alone. Luke is nevertheless gainfully employed by a wealthy French aristocrat the Marquis des Anges to investigate the murder of his first wife and the attempted murder of his second. Harry assists the English courtiers to solve the murder of two young ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother Henriette Marie, and together with a Royalist peer is falsely imprisoned and tortured. He escapes and after many life threatening adventures is rescued on the orders of Frances chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Meanwhile Lukes investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, a Canadian adventurer, a rampaging bear and a mysterious treasure of English Catholic gold and silverinvestigations that provoke a series of fatal bombings. Harrys determination to find and exact revenge on a renegade French aristocrat responsible for his torture leads him eventually to the French chateau where Luke is pursuing his villains.

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