![]() From a Bohemian artists’ colony to a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed. Together with her natural-historian colleague, Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer. Ramsforth, accused of the brutal murder of his mistress, Artemisia, will face the hangman’s noose in a week’s time if the real killer is not found.īut Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of many secrets Veronica must uncover. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task-saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. A Perilous Undertaking - Deanna Raybourn - Google Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Veronica, an adventurous lepidopterist, meets a woman calling herself Lady Sundridge, she easily deduces her exalted true identity. The “wickedly clever and devilishly amusing”* Veronica Speedwell returns for a rousing adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries. Raybourn's effervescent sequel to 2015's A Curious Beginning combines witty suspense with a playful look at the secrets proper Victorians hid. ![]()
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