He had been an orphan and achieved his wealth through hard work.
The story was good, though not exceptional, but it was the characters who enchanted me. So who is this woman with Vivien Duvall’s face and why did someone try to kill her?Įven though there was no big mystery here (I figured it out early in the book), I enjoyed watching Grant try to solve it. Vivien has never been known to even open a book. Also, when she goes into Grant’s library, she is enchanted by the books and remembers and quotes passages from them. When Grant shows her Vivien’s diary, she is horrified and protests that she could never do anything like that, and her protests have a ring of truth about them. She has an air of sweetness and innocence about her and is not haughty and spoiled like Vivien. He knew Vivien and this woman acts nothing like her. She is polite to the servants and even attempts to dress herself. Even though this woman looks exactly like Vivien Duvall, she behaves in ways that a spoiled courtesan would not. The young woman wakes up and can’t remember a thing. Grant takes her to his house until she regains consciousness and then he will question her and try to find out who attempted to murder her and why. Grant recognizes her as Vivien Duvall, one of London’s most elegant courtesans. The woman is unconscious, not dead, and has been strangled and then hit over the head. One evening he is called by a Thames waterman who has found the body of a woman floating in the river. His exploits are also the subject of several penny-dreadful books, much to his disgust but to the delight of his servants who collect them behind his back. He has collected a number of large rewards, mostly from banks, and has become a very wealthy man. Grant Morgan is one of the most successful of the Runners. The Bow Street Runners were more like detectives than real policemen, and they worked on a fee and reward basis. These were the predecessors of the bobbies. There was a lot I liked about Lisa Kleypas’s new historical romance Someone To Watch Over Me starting with the hero’s profession.
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