
Marion Chesney, Our Lady Of Pain
Value For Money
Marion Chesney, Our Lady Of Pain
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works.

User Reviews
Value For Money
Our Lady Of Pain Marion Chesney St. Mart
Our Lady Of Pain
Marion Chesney
St. Martin's, April 2006, $22.95, 224 pp.
ISBN 0312329687
The Earl of Hadshire's daughter, Lady Rose Summer failed to catch a husband during her season, so her parents want to send her to India to find a spouse there among the expatriates. Rose convinces Captain Harry Cathcart, a private investigator, to fake an engagement so she won't have to travel to India. Although the engagement is phony, Rose has real feelings for Harry, and is insanely jealous when he starts squiring his new client Dolores Duval around town.
Rose threatens in a public place to kill Delores if she doesn't stay away from Harry. Later Rose visits Dolores' lodgings and finds that her rival is shot to death. The police assume Rose killed Delores and arrest her. She is soon released, and they travel to Paris to interview the woman named in Dolores' will, but soon afterward she is murdered and Rose is thrown into the Seine. Harry rescues her. They find a fake suicide note where Rose admits to the two killings. Danger follows Rose to Scotland, and in London when she asks too many questions. Even after the suspected murderer is caught, Rose remains in danger from an unknown enemy with only Harry to help her.
OUR LADY OF PAIN gives readers a glimpse of Edwardian England as seen through the eyes of the aristocracy and their servants. Rose's life is in danger, and she is also being set up by someone to take the fall as a murderess. Harry has his hands full keeping Rose safe and out of jail, while trying to figure out just how deep his feelings for her go. This is a very entertaining historical mystery, which is at times very funny, as the heroine goes from one crisis to the next. Marion Chesney beguiles the reader with her witty and non-conformist characters.
Q&A
There are no questions yet. Be the first to ask a question.