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Beau death, Peter Lovesey

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Beau death, Peter Lovesey

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eng

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fiction

Main title

Beau death

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Peter Lovesey

Summary

Bath, England: A wrecking crew is demolishing a row of townhouses in order to build a grocery store when they uncover a skeleton in one of the attics. The dead man is wearing authentic 1760s garb and on the floor next to it is a white tricorn hatâ the ostentatious signature accessory of Beau Nash, one of Bathâ s most famous historical men-about-town, a fashion icon and incurable rake who, some say, ended up in a pauperâ s grave. Or did the Beau actually end up in a townhouse attic? The Beau Nash Society will be all in a tizzy when the truth is revealed to them. Chief Inspector Peter Diamond, who has been assigned to identify the remains, begins to fantasize about turning Nash scholarship on its ear. But one of his constables is stubbornly insisting the corpse canâ t be Nashâ sâ the non-believer threatens to spoil Diamondâ s favorite theory, especially when he offers some pretty irrefutable evidence. Is Diamond on a historical goose chase? Should he actually be investigating a much more modern murder?

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