The Shelleys and their mystery
If you are familiar with the adventurous lives
of the Young Romantics and their circle, you’ll love Lynn Shepherd’s new
literary mystery, A Treacherous Likeness. If you aren’t, you may love it even more.
You’ll find yourself glued to the pages of this mystery novel, based on an intriguing web of shocking discoveries which detective Charles Maddock unveils, one after the other , while investigating on behalf of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s only surviving son.
On his quest for missing documents he gets involved in the mysterious case of Percy Bysshe's first wife's death; he meets Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont, once Byron's lover, and Mary's half - sister; he discovers his great-uncle once worked on that case and must know much about the secrets hidden in the Shelleys' past. If only he could speak to him, if only the old detective didn't live in a state of total unconsciousness...
You’ll find yourself glued to the pages of this mystery novel, based on an intriguing web of shocking discoveries which detective Charles Maddock unveils, one after the other , while investigating on behalf of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s only surviving son.
On his quest for missing documents he gets involved in the mysterious case of Percy Bysshe's first wife's death; he meets Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont, once Byron's lover, and Mary's half - sister; he discovers his great-uncle once worked on that case and must know much about the secrets hidden in the Shelleys' past. If only he could speak to him, if only the old detective didn't live in a state of total unconsciousness...