Dangerous Sea (Lord Edward Corinth \u0026 Verity Browne, #4) by David Roberts


Dangerous Sea (Lord Edward Corinth \u0026 Verity Browne, #4)
Title : Dangerous Sea (Lord Edward Corinth \u0026 Verity Browne, #4)
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ISBN : 0786712155
ISBN-10 : 9780786712151
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 320
Publication : First published November 5, 2003

Optioned by Columbia for a major motion picture, this new who-dunit continues the popular series. It features one of the most perfectly mismatched pairs of sleuths in British mystery the aristocratic Lord Edward Corinth and left-wing journalist Verity Browne. In a lively new adventure, Verity finds herself, despite her communist sympathies, traveling in a first-class cabin of the elegant, luxuriously appointed RMS Queen Mary. And not Edward Corinth but the handsome and charismatic Sam Forrest, an American labor-union organizer, occupies the quarters next door. However, Corinth is on board—at the behest of the eminent British economist Lord Benyon, who has scheduled a top-secret meeting regarding his country’s rearmament with President Roosevelt in the United States. Only the secret is out, and someone wants Lord Benyon out of the way. But it’s U.S. Senator George Earle Day who turns up dead. An inflammatory right-wing racist, Day has managed to make many enemies among the ship’s passengers, most notably the politically controversial black American singer and actor Warren Fairley, his Hollywood starlet wife, a leading German-Jewish aeronautical engineer, a charming American socialite of dubious pedigree, and an effete English art dealer whose curiosity is outstripped by his deceit.

Dangerous Sea (Lord Edward Corinth \u0026 Verity Browne, #4) Reviews

  • Laura

    Abandoned — think I’m going to give this series a pass. I realized that what I find intriguing about it is the history, not the characters or plotting. I should just read actual nonfiction about the period.

  • Janet

    Set in 1937 and featuring Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Brown. Appears to be an attempt at re-creating Lord Peter Wimsey. Predictable. Not a success.

  • Mary Newcomb

    A relaxing sea voyage on the Queen Mary? Hardly! Lord Edward and Verity get tangled up in two murders and several other types of intrigue (as well as each other).

  • Kathleen Freeman

    Overall I enjoyed this book, it was a quick easy read.

  • Cori North

    Wanted to like the characters more, but most of them pretty flat...

  • Paul Gatehouse

    David Roberts has a pleasing style and these period murder mysteries rattle along nicely.

  • Ann Taylor

    Another great read from David. Verity and Lord Edward go across the pond in a big boat and solve a murder on the way. More fascinating insights to world politics in the 1930's.