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  • Published: 5 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141906812
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Shooting Party




A masterpiece of historical fiction, and the inspiration behind Downton Abbey

When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself...

  • Published: 5 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141906812
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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