Fidelis Morgan è autrice di una serie di romanzi gialli con la Contessa Ashby dela Zouche e un cast di personaggi stravaganti. I suoi libri sono stati descritti come ‘Armistead Maupin del XVII secolo’, ‘Flashman per ragazze’, ‘un PG Wodehouse licenzioso’ e ‘Cagney e Lacey in corsetto’. Ha anche pubblicato influenti opere di saggistica, principalmente sul XVII e XVIII secolo. Il suo ultimo romanzo di suspense è un mistero moderno.
An unlikely chaperone, the Countess Ashby de la Zouche is disappointed to find that the exiled English Court at St Germain is not a den of iniquity. As sleuths however, she and her maid find danger - investigating a plot against three kings and in an encounter with a mysterious Bastille prisoner.
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London 1699. Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to Charles II, is an aristocrat on her uppers. Cast into the Fleet Prison, she is forced to turn to journalism. But the Countess and her maidservant encounter more intrigue than they bargained for.
Zábavná příručka, kterou zkušená herečka a spisovatelka přibližuje čtenáři prostředí divadla s nadhledem bluféra.
Fidelis Morgan, geboren 1952, arbeitete als Schauspielerin und ist Expertin für historische Theateraufführungen. Sie hat bereits ein Sachbuch über berühmte Frauen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts geschrieben. Alice Jakubeit übersetzt Romane, Sachbücher und Reportagen aus dem Englischen und Spanischen, u. a. Alexander McCall Smith, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, Brian McGilloway und Eva García Sáenz. Sie lebt in Düsseldorf.