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Riot most uncouth : a Lord Byron mystery by Friedman, Daniel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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1807, Cambridge, England. A young woman is murdered in a boarding house, and nobody knows what to do about it. The volunteer watchman who patrols the streets of this placid college town has no idea how to investigate a serious crime and the private bounty hunters the girl's family has hired to catch the killer employ methods that are questionable, at best. What Cambridge needs is a hero, and, in a situation such as this, it's very easy for a gentleman with a romantic disposition to mistake himself for one. 19 year-old Lord Byron, the outlaw poet, is a student at Trinity College, though he can only be described as a "student" in the loosest sense of the word: He rarely attends class and, instead, spends his time day-drinking, making love to faculty wives, and feeding fine cuisine and expensive wine to the bear he keeps as a pet. Catching a killer seems like a fine diversion, however, and Byron decides that solving the crime must take precedence over other, less-urgent matters such as his failing grades and mounting debts. Written by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Don't Ever Get Old , which Publishers Weekly called "wickedly funny," and inspired by Byron's moody, sexy and often
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Friedman, Daniel
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press; Minotaur Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250027597
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.18 / 5 (161 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14