Jane and the Wandering Eye
Being the Third Jane Austen Mystery
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Jane Austen continues to enthrall movie lovers, television viewers, and readers of this series. Now, in Jane's most festive and fearsome outing yet, she attends a masquerade ball that could lead to the ruin of her reputation--or the loss of her life.
As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town." It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge—to shadow his niece, Lady Desdemona, who has fled to Bath to avoid the attentions of the unsavoury Earl of Swithin. But Jane's idle diversion turns deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the Theatre Royal. Adding to the mystery is an unusual object found on the victim's body—a pendant that contains a portrait of an eye! As Jane's fascination with scandal leads her deeper into the investigation, it becomes clear that she will not uncover the truth without some dangerous playacting of her own....
