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What darkness brings

The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastian's former lover Kat Boleyn is accused of the murder. Central to the case is a magnific...

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Main Author: Harris, C. S.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Obsidian, 2013.
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series ; bk. 8.
Subjects:
Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > England > London > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > England > Fiction.
Hope diamond > Fiction.
London (England) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
Summary: The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastian's former lover Kat Boleyn is accused of the murder. Central to the case is a magnificent blue diamond, the Hope diamond, believed to have once formed part of the French crown jewels. Set in Regency London: September, 1812.
Physical Description: 353 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780451239273 (hbk.)
045123927X (hbk.)
Author Notes: C. S. Harris is the pen name for Candice Proctor, who received a B. A. in classics and an M. A. and Ph.D in European history. She taught history at the University of Idaho and Midwestern State University in Texas. She also worked as an archaeologist on a variety of sites including a Hudson's Bay Company Fort in San Juan Island, a Cherokee village in Tennessee, a prehistoric kill site in Victoria, Australia, and a Roman cemetery and medieval manor house in Winchester, England. She spent many years as a partner in an international business consulting firm.

She writes novels under the names Candice Proctor, C. S. Harris, and C. S. Graham. She writes the Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Ser. under the name C. S. Harris. She is also the author of a nonfiction historical study of women in the French Revolution.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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