{"product_id":"the-hanging-cheat-lady-fan-mystery","title":"The Hanging Cheat (Lady Fan Mystery)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fanshawes are back in another twisty mystery! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho hanged the body in the woods…?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1796, England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeavily pregnant Lady Ottilia Fanshawe should not really be travelling. But when her sister-in-law dies, she goes with her husband Francis to comfort her brother and her two nephews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd of course it’s not long before the services of her alter-ego, Lady Fan, are required.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile playing in the woodlands, the two boys come across a gruesome discovery. A dead man is hanging from a tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe corpse is quickly identified as the local justice, Hector Penkevil, a man universally disliked for his meanness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it’s soon clear that his death was not suicide, but murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Penkevil so disliked in the community, how can Lady Fan narrow down the suspects? Will she find the killer?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd can she solve the mystery before she is forced to bed with her pregnancy…?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE HANGING CHEAT is the tenth book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous woman sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives—and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!’ - Meritorious Mysteries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work’ – She Reads Novels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, Ottilia, is a fantastic character.’ - Historical Romance UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES\u003cbr\u003eBOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud\u003cbr\u003eBOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent\u003cbr\u003eBOOK THREE: The Opium Purge\u003cbr\u003eBOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin\u003cbr\u003eBOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow\u003cbr\u003eBOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage\u003cbr\u003eBOOK SEVEN: The Dagger Dance\u003cbr\u003eBOOK EIGHT: The Unwanted Corpse\u003cbr\u003eBOOK NINE: The Vengeance Trail\u003cbr\u003eBOOK TEN: The Hanging Cheat\u003cbr\u003eBOOK ELEVEN: The Killing Cave\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivy Shelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47287759798326,"sku":"9780854951956","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/1468\/1142\/files\/9780854951956.jpg?v=1787103738","url":"https:\/\/theivyshelf.com\/products\/the-hanging-cheat-lady-fan-mystery","provider":"The Ivy Shelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}