Snare of Serpents - Hardcover

Holt, Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385416903 ISBN 13: 9780385416900

Publisher: Doubleday, 1990

Synopsis

Seeking to escape accusations that she had something to do with her father's death, Davina Glentyre flees Edinburgh for Africa, where she meets handsome Roger Lestrange and his ailing wife and is swept up in the Boer War

About this title

About the Author:

Born Eleanor Alice Burford, Victoria Holt was one of Britain's most prolific writers of historical romance. Always determined to keep her birth date and private life a closely guarded secret Holt wrote under many pseudonyms - Jean Plaidy was one of her most popular, and was created when she lived near Plaidy Beach in Cornwall. Having written over ninety historical romances, she then began a new series of Gothic romances, the first of which, Mistress of Mellyn, appeared in 1961.

From the Inside Flap:

yre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made even more unbearable by her father's sudden marriage to her new governess. Her one joy was her friendship with a poor but charming student, Jamie, whom her father forbade her to wed. When her father suddenly died from arsenic poisoning, the means, motive, and opportunity all pointed to Davina herself. Alone, she escaped to the colonies in Africa. But with the Boer War came danger and the return of dark secrets from the past that threatened her reputation and her very life . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385416903
• ISBN 13: 9780385416900
• Binding: Hardcover