The Melancholy Virgin — Annabel Laine

'You're not going to be best pleased. It's a case of murder.' -- With these words from a Bow Street Runner, that nonpareil of Regency London, Charles Edward Graham Dornay, fifth Earl of Moriston, finds himself entangled with the violent and mysterious death of a lady of easy virtue. -- His lordship's first move is to interview the murdered girl's best friend, that dazzling star of operatic firmament, Miss Katharine Kenwood. He expects to meet a highly strung lady of doubtful respectability, but instead finds himself falling headlong irretrievably in love. And he speedily discovers that it is no easy task to woo a hostile and suspicious lady on the one hand and to try a solve murder on the other.