![]() ![]() She suffers two robbery attempts in the same night: the first as she is leaving the Gardens and two thugs try to steal her purse and the second in the middle of the night, when someone tries to rob her house. ![]() ![]() However, it seems someone is trying to hurt more than just her reputation. Shunned by Regency London high society, cut off by her parents who disapproved of her second marriage, harassed by her in-laws, the lonely Lady Rebecca comes to the Maida Gardens “where she could be anonymous and part of society in a way she could control.” Lancaster wastes no time making us doubt Rebecca’s innocence: both of her abusive husbands died as a result of their own excesses and the rumors of her poisoning them were started by her second husband’s relatives, who want control of her young son Tom, along with his inheritance. ![]() She, in turn, is watched by Ludovic Dunne, a solicitor who has been hired by the relatives of her dead second husband to investigate her. Masked couples dance on the lantern lit lawn and, alone, on a table with no other chairs, Lady Rebecca Cornish, also known as the Black Widow, watches them. Unmasking Sin, the third book on Mary Lancaster’s “Pleasure Gardens” series, opens, fittingly enough, on the Maida Pleasure Gardens. ![]()
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