- Paperback: 289 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (30 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0143113399
- ISBN-13: 978-0143113393
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,481,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Great heroine, 8 Dec 2008
By Suzanne M. Arruda - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery (Paperback)
Ursula Marlow is a true woman of adventure: a gorgeous suffragette with the mind of Hercule Poirot and the spunk and daring of Nelly Bly. She's the perfect match against assassins, Bolsheviks, and spies in this exciting adventure laced with mystery and intrigue. Suzanne Arruda, author of the Jade del Cameron mystery series
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Can't wait for the next one!, 21 Nov 2008
By mellu - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery (Paperback)
Great period mystery! Ursula reminds me of Masie Dobbs, resourceful with plenty of spunk. Read Consequences of Sin first, and then wait for the next one to come out!
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Egypt-England - 1911, 11 July 2009
By Lyn Reese - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery (Paperback)
This second book in Langley-Hawthorne's Ursula Marlow series begins in Egypt where Ursula, in charge of her dead father's English textile mills, is visiting the source of her cotton supply. There she encounters the intrigues and worries about British control that characterized the tensions just before the outbreak of World War I. British fears of Bolshevik sabotage, of the growing strength of regional nationalism, of attempts to settle European Jews in Palestine, and of greedy British businessmen selling arms to the Ottoman Turks, or whomever else will pay for them, are key plot elements.
The Marlow character remains as interesting as ever. Ursula is subjected to the censor of her upper class world and her lover, the mysterious Lord Wrotham. But she perseveres in her quest to unravel the possible connection between the deaths of her Russian friend in Egypt and a Russian born female employee in one of her northern English mills. Ursula's brief interaction with Eugenie Mahfouz, a daughter of a wealthy French merchant who married a prominent Egyptian, is unfortunately the only glimpse Langley-Hawthorne gives us into Egyptian society. Ursula's suffrage ties and the WSPU's militant actions in Britain make a brief appearance in the latter pages of the book.
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