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[Read by Sarah Nichols]The Rosalind Thorne mystery series -- inspired by the novels of Jane Austen -- continues as the audacious Rosalind strives to aid those in need while navigating the halls of high society.Rosalind Thorne has slowly but assuredly gained a reputation as ''a useful woman'' -- by helping respectable women out of some less-than-respectable predicaments.Her latest endeavor is a tragedy waiting to happen. Desperate Margaretta Seymore is with child -- and her husband is receiving poisoned pen letters that imply that her condition is the result of an affair with the notorious actor Fletcher Cavendish. Margaretta asks Rosalind to find out who is behind the scurrilous letters. But before she can make any progress, Cavendish is found dead, stabbed through the heart.