The golden hour : a novel

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Label

The golden hour : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Beatriz Williams

Creator

• Williams, Beatriz

Subject

• Detective and mystery fiction
• Journalists -- Fiction
• Murder -- Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Nassau (Bahamas) -- Fiction
• Nineteen forties -- Fiction
• Reporters and reporting -- Fiction
• Spies -- Fiction
• Bahamas -- Fiction
• Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 -- Fiction
• Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986 -- Fiction
• Women journalists -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• Widows -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a fashionable New York magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that infamous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. And what more compelling backdrop could there be than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines. But as she infiltrates the duke and duchess' social circle and the powerful cabal which controls the islands' political and financial affairs, she uncovers evidence that beneath the glitter of Wallis and Edward's marriage lies an ugly, perhaps even treasonous, reality. In fact, Windsor-era Nassau roils with spies, financial swindles, and racial tension, and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe, a scientist of charismatic charm and murky national loyalties. Inevitably, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love. Then Nassau's wealthiest man is murdered in one of the most notorious cases of the century, and the resulting cover-up reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears without a trace, and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and beyond to unpick Thorpe's complicated family history: a fateful love affair, a wartime tragedy, and a mother from whom all joy is stolen

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult