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02773aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 5A68E5523AB511EBA8F3B8A535ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201210010012 008 200311s2020 nyu 000 f eng d 010 $a 2020939650 020 $a 1496722124 020 $a 9781496722126 035 $a (OCoLC)1143648854 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d LIV $d OCLCO $d IG$ $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d ZGR $d ILC $d OCLCF $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Simpson, Rosemary, $d 1942- $e author. 245 10 $a Death, diamonds, and deception / $c Rosemary Simpson. 250 $a First Kensington hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Kensington Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 325 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a Gilded Age mystery ; $v [5] 500 $a Sequel to: Death brings a shadow. 520 $a "Fall 1889: Lady Rotherton has arrived from London intent on chaperoning her niece Prudence through a New York social season to find a suitable husband. It's certainly not her niece's devilishly handsome partner in Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law. Aunt Gillian's eye for eligible suitors is surpassed only by her ability to discern genuine gems from nearly flawless fakes. At the Assembly Ball at Delmonico's, she effortlessly determines that the stones in the spectacular diamond waterfall necklace adorning the neck of the wife of banker William De Vries are fake. Insisting on absolute discretion to avoid scandal, the banker employs Prudence and Geoffrey to recover the stolen diamonds pried out of their settings - priceless stones acquired by Tiffany, originally purchased for Marie Antoinette. Their search for a possible fence rapidly leads to a dead end: a jeweler brutally killed in his shop during an apparent theft. The jeweler's murder is only the first in a string of mysterious deaths, as Prudence and Geoffrey pursue their elusive quarry. But the clues keep leading back to duplicity on the part of the De Vries family, who, it turns out, have a great deal to hide . . ."--Publisher. 650 0 $a Private investigators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jewelry theft $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 800 1 $a Simpson, Rosemary, $d 1942- $t Gilded Age mystery ; $v 5. 941 $a 8 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012139.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010022609.0 952 $l VBPC034 $d 20220201011448.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063836.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20210302015118.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210203010819.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210105011005.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201210010205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5A68E5523AB511EBA8F3B8A535ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search