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Goodnight, Sweet Prince by Dickinson, David is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"England, 1892, and Victoria, Queen and Empress, is in the 54th year of her reign. Prince Eddy, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, second in line to the throne, is found slaughtered in his bed at the royal country house at Sandringham, Norfolk. Terrified of scandal, the Prince of Wales and his spin doctors decide on a cover-up: the murder is disguised as death by influenza. Lord Francis Powerscourt, an Irish investigator, is asked secretly to find the killer, but there are many possible suspects. At the time of death there were Russians, possibly anarchists, in the vicinity. There were also Irish, possibly terrorists. The Royal Family and even the Government are not above suspicion, for Eddy would have been a singularly unsuitable monarch - as a young man he left the country for two years on a grand tour, but not it seems purely for cultural reasons. Powerscourt's quest takes him deep into Prince Eddy's debauched and dissolute past. It takes him on a journey of discovery through the crumbling palazzos and the misty waterways of Venice. And it takes him on a love affair that starts in front of Turner's Fighting Temeraire in London's National Gallery. Through a web of scandal and sui

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Dickinson, David
Publisher
Constable & Robinson Ltd
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9781841194226
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.6 / 5 (14 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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