A Curious Beginning - Deanna Raybourn
Category: Mystery
Narrator: Angele Masters
Tags: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Adults
Series: Veronica Speedwell Mysteries, Book 1 Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins Release date: 09-03-15 Publisher: Recorded Books, London, 1887 As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victorias golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry - and the occasional romantic dalliance., As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past., Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker - a reclusive natural histor
