Black Gold
Poisoned Pen Press, June 2002, 24.95,496 pp.
ISBN: 1590580109
In 1787 France, Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin, a provost of the royal highway patrol, is directed to find and arrest Captain Maurice Fitzroy for the rape and assault on a French noble woman. After making several inquiries he learns that his quarry has escaped to England and is residing in his cousin's home in Bath.
At the request of her host to teach how to read lips, sign and speak...
