Lord John and the private matter

ISBN: 0385660235 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 0385660227
ISBN: 0385337477
ISBN: 9780385660235 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 9780385660228
ISBN: 9780385337472
Physical Description: x, 305 p. ; 22 cm. print
Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada : Anchor Canada, c2003.

Summary: The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from London’s Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty’s Army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: the Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade in arms, who may have been a traitor. Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery and betrayal that touches every stratum of English society — and threatens all he holds dear. From the bawdy houses of London’s night-world to the stately drawing rooms of the nobility, and from the blood of a murdered corpse to the thundering seas ruled by the majestic fleet of the East India Company, Lord John pursues the elusive trails of a vanishing footman and a woman in green velvet, who may hold the key to everything — or nothing. - "Goodreads"