The Queen of Diamonds - Hardcover

Plaidy, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709057695 ISBN 13: 9780709057697

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Based on the affair of the stolen necklace, which may have precipitated the French Revolution, this nove l offers one solution to the historical mystery, the motives behind which have long puzzled students and amateur detecti ves of history. '

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Review:

‘Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of characterisation, has become one of the country’s most widely read novelists.’
Sunday Times

From the Back Cover:

A STORY OF GREED, DUPLICITY, ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE, AND A MYSTERY SAID TO HAVE BROUGHT DOWN THE FRENCH MONARCHY...

The world shook at the eruption of the French Revolution, a revolution, some say, precipitated by a single factor: the theft of the Diamond Necklace which, it seemed, had been commissioned for Marie Antoinette and helped to bring both her and King Louis XVI to the guillotine.

But behind the scandal was a complex and daring conspiracy involving a Prince of the Royal House of France, the charming and deceitful countess Jeanne de Valois, and the infamous Comte de Cagliostro – all pawns in a secret, devious plot for wealth and supremacy in Europe.

"Superb storytelling...meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of characterisation...one of the country's most widely read novelists"
SUNDAY TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0709057695
• ISBN 13: 9780709057697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256