A Study in Scandal

by Robyn Dehart

Meet the delightfully whimsical world of Robyn DeHart and get ready to fall in love with this slush–pile gem.Lady Amelia Watersfield knows most society ladies care little about solving mysteries. But after discovering the serialized stories of Sherlock Holmes in her weekly broadsheet, a fixation on the fictional detective takes hold, and she convinces her three best friends to join her in forming the Ladies Amateur Sleuth Society. After all, sleuthing out the truth in ton gossip is a lot more exciting than needlepoint, and now that they are officially "on the shelf", what else is there to pass the time?But idle entertainment takes an adventurous turn when a real mystery strikes right in Amelia's own manor. A missing Egyptian artifact of dubious authenticity means little to Scotland Yard, so, to aid the Ladies Amateur Sleuth Society in their first real case, her father commissions an investigator for hire to find the vanished object. Understandably, the dashing real–life detective is re