A family affair

By Caro Peacock

Subjects: Investigation, Brothers, Fiction, gay, Illegitimacy, Women private investigators, Liberty Lane (Fictitious character), Fiction, historical, general, Women detectives, Inheritance and succession, Murder, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, erotica, general, Gay men, fiction, History

Description: Benjamin Disraeli asks Liberty Lane, a young gentlewoman who supplements her meager means with some discreet private sleuthing, to investigate Lady Sophia Brinkburn, who is spreading word that her elder son is illegitimate as her mad husband nears death. With the succession of the family title in question and a major scandal brewing, murder soon becomes a family affair. Set in 1830's Victorian England.