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This was one of my least regarded when I last read it many years ago. But I am enjoying the heck out of it this time. So far it is one of my top favorites! It's nothing like I remember.

Time for one of Patricia Veryan series.

Gasping, he snatched determinedly for the reticule. Unhappily, he retrieved it upside down. Coins rolled in all directions; a pencil, notepad, card case, chain purse, handkerchief, a brush, an advertisement for cucumber lotion, a pair of scissors, a brooch, two letters, a pot of rouge, a scone wrapped in paper, a flea comb, and a carrot were scattered about the flagway. A hand mirror shattered as did a vial of scent.

"The message is from E. Tummet. And it says, 'Please to 'elp 'im find Cap'n Rossiter,' on account of which gent I lost me sovereign nation-er, sittyation, that is, melady. And got one 'o me daylights darkened."

This guy is a hoot!

Time out from the investigation so we can have a duel.

You're a...dead man!

Can't stop to chat. Sorry.

I have knocked the book over twice in the last hour, losing my page. This should help if I do it again.

Our hero's younger twin brother is quite the pot stirrer, if not worse.