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Giles Demaury, a 90‑year‑old recluse and head of an international art‑dealing dynasty, convenes his dispersed relatives in his palazzo during Venice’s 1891 Festival Season. He intends to select an heir to his wealth, demanding that each claimant—including the wealthy American Bertrand Demaury, Parisian Phillippe and his countess, and the German Otto von Wuppertal—facing financial ruin, attend for judgment. As family members arrive, their ambitions and rivalries clash like knives. Meg, an impoverished cousin and companion to Esmeralda Demaury, appears from England, ignored by the family but pursued by Lord Peter Chalmers. During the opulent Carnival and boat races, tensions rise; a guest is murdered, turning Prince Lorenzo Giolitti‑Crispi, the penniless chief of police, into an unlikely investigator. Meg becomes a suspect, and the mystery deepens until Giles announces the inheritor of his fortune, delivering an electrifying shock amid the glimmering spectacle of Venice.
First publish date: 1978
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Anne-Marie Sheridan
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