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A corpse rises from the dead in the morgue at Guy's Hospital, and his missing pantaloons appear to be cursed as they roam the city, causing consternation and death wherever they go. What possible connection can this have to a gang of female jewel thieves and a pot of raspberry jam? There's a new man in charge at Bow Street Magistrates' Court and all is not well. His ambition is to split up Lavender and Woods--and to add to Lavender's woes, someone is leaking exaggerated stories about his investigations to The Times. Lavender is tasked with solving the theft of an aristocrat's precious jewels, while Woods is instructed to track down a libeler. But after a series of vicious murders and surprising coincidences, they discover that these apparently unconnected crimes have more in common than they could ever have imagined. They disobey orders and work together to track down the killers. Faced with some of the most bizarre mysteries of their career, Lavender and Woods need all their cunning and guile to expose the devious secrecy of their suspects, solve these deadly crimes--and prove to Magistrate Conant that as a team, they are so much greater than the sum of its parts.

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Karen Charlton is the bestselling author of the Detective Lavender Mystery Series which is set in Regency London and features Bow Street's Principal Officer, Stephen Lavender and his humorous side-kick, Constable Ned Woods. In addition to this, she has written a stand-alone historical novel, Catching the Eagle based on the true story of her notorious criminal ancestor and a genealogical book, Seeking Our Eagle that explains how she and her late husband tracked down the jail-bird in their family tree. A former English teacher, with two grown-up children, Karen lives in a Yorkshire fishing village and now writes full-time. Michael Page has narrated over two hundred audiobooks and has won several Earphones Awards. As a professional actor, he has performed regularly with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. Currently a professor of theater at Calvin College, he lives with his wife and their two daughters in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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