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Title details for The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig - Available

The Deception of the Emerald Ring

#3 in series

by Lauren Willig
Kate Reading
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Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France.
Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied with Colin Selwick and sought out a romantic adventure all her own. Little does she know that she's about to uncover another fierce heroine running headlong into history.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Pink Carnation

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 18, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307876294
      • File size: 395560 KB
      • Duration: 13:44:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Oh, this is fun--a deliciously knowledgeable piece of addictive fluff that is beautifully narrated by Kate Reading. Reading, who performed Willig's two previous books, knows her characters well. For those who haven't yet heard them, the books interweave two plots: the adventures of a saucy, lovelorn contemporary American who is writing her dissertation about unorthodox nineteenth-century British spies and the adventures of the spies themselves. In this book, the spies, whose aliases include the Pink Carnation and the Purple Gentian, are out to foil the 1803 Irish Rebellion. Reading perfectly captures the story's effervescence and adds clear, quick pacing and character-revealing voices. She also does believable renditions of various American and British accents. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 21, 2006
      Harvard Ph.D. candidate Eloise Kelly continues her research of early 19th-century spies in the smart third book of the Pink Carnation series, following the well-received The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
      and The Masque of the Black Tulip
      . This installment focuses on 19-year-old Letty Alsworthy, who, after a comedy of errors, quickly weds Lord Geoffrey Pinchingdale-Snipe, her older sister's intended. Geoffrey, an officer in the League of the Purple Gentian, flees to Ireland the night of his elopement. Unbeknownst to Letty, his plan isn't to abandon her; it's to quash the impending Irish Rebellion. When Letty tracks down her prodigal husband in Dublin, not only does she learn of his secret life as a spy, she's sucked into it with hilarious results. Willig—like Eloise, a Ph.D. candidate in history—draws on her knowledge of the period, filling the fast-paced narrative with mistaken identities, double agents and high stakes espionage. Every few chapters, the reader is brought back to contemporary London, where Eloise gets out of the archives long enough to nurse her continuing crush on Colin Selwick. The Eloise and Colin plot distracts from the main attraction, but the historic action is taut and twisting. Fans of the series will clamor for more.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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