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![]() | The Cavalier Case (1990) (The seventh book in the Jemima Shore series) A novel by Antonia Fraser |
Publisher's Weekly
In her seventh Jemima Shore novel, Fraser deftly brings together her two previously separate fortes, history and mystery. In an unusual premise, long-dead viscount and Cavalier poet Decimus Meredith repeatedly exits his portrait on the wall to haunt his 20th-century heirs. The contemporary viscount, suave and manipulative ladies' man and tennis star ''Handsome Dan'' Meredith, has unconventional visions about keeping up expensive Lackland Court. Dan would model its grounds into very different kinds of courts, where he and his fashionable friends would serve tennis balls and be served ''designer drinks'' between matches. Shore, a TV commentator, agrees to create a program about ghosts in country houses at the same time that she falls in love with a portrait she has been lent, which, coincidentally, features Decimus Meredith. Meanwhile, preparations for a costumed Cavalier Celebration at Lackland Court are upset by a death, a startling discovery and an attack by the resident ghost. Jemima's clearheaded sleuthing sorts out the many suspects, some of whom fit historical roles in the family history. Fraser's own love of history enriches this light, amusingly narrated but essentially sad story of a family haunted by betrayal and obsessed with a poetic past.
School Library Journal
YA-- Jemima Shore, an intrepid television journalist and amateur sleuth, starts out to research a ghost story and wanders into a murder investigation among the bluebloods of British society in this gripping, fast-moving mystery. The victims: the alcoholic 17th Viscount Lackland and his elderly butler, both killed in mysterious falls; the suspect: the 300-year-old ghost of the first Viscount Lackland, killed in battle in 1645. The next possible victim is the handsome 18th Viscount Lackland, a man surrounded by beautiful women and perhaps one malevolent ghost. Readers will appreciate this combination mystery, ghost story, and romance set in contemporary England but harkening back to the past.-- Richard Lisker, Fairfax Public Library, VA
Genre: Mystery
In her seventh Jemima Shore novel, Fraser deftly brings together her two previously separate fortes, history and mystery. In an unusual premise, long-dead viscount and Cavalier poet Decimus Meredith repeatedly exits his portrait on the wall to haunt his 20th-century heirs. The contemporary viscount, suave and manipulative ladies' man and tennis star ''Handsome Dan'' Meredith, has unconventional visions about keeping up expensive Lackland Court. Dan would model its grounds into very different kinds of courts, where he and his fashionable friends would serve tennis balls and be served ''designer drinks'' between matches. Shore, a TV commentator, agrees to create a program about ghosts in country houses at the same time that she falls in love with a portrait she has been lent, which, coincidentally, features Decimus Meredith. Meanwhile, preparations for a costumed Cavalier Celebration at Lackland Court are upset by a death, a startling discovery and an attack by the resident ghost. Jemima's clearheaded sleuthing sorts out the many suspects, some of whom fit historical roles in the family history. Fraser's own love of history enriches this light, amusingly narrated but essentially sad story of a family haunted by betrayal and obsessed with a poetic past.
School Library Journal
YA-- Jemima Shore, an intrepid television journalist and amateur sleuth, starts out to research a ghost story and wanders into a murder investigation among the bluebloods of British society in this gripping, fast-moving mystery. The victims: the alcoholic 17th Viscount Lackland and his elderly butler, both killed in mysterious falls; the suspect: the 300-year-old ghost of the first Viscount Lackland, killed in battle in 1645. The next possible victim is the handsome 18th Viscount Lackland, a man surrounded by beautiful women and perhaps one malevolent ghost. Readers will appreciate this combination mystery, ghost story, and romance set in contemporary England but harkening back to the past.-- Richard Lisker, Fairfax Public Library, VA
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
1994 : Hardback
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Antonia Fraser Publisher: Bloomsbury Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1993 : Hardback
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December 1992 : Hardback
| Title: The Cavalier Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery (Eagle large print) Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7927-0817-2 / 978-0-7927-0817-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Chivers North America Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1992 : Hardback
| Title: Cavalier Case (Windsor Selections) Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-86220-480-1 / 978-0-86220-480-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 1991 : Hardback
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Lady Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-685-38897-2 / 978-0-685-38897-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Doubleday Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1991 : Hardback
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7704-2426-0 / 978-0-7704-2426-8 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1991 : Hardback
| Title: The Cavalier Case - A Jemima Shore Mystery Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-553-07126-2 / 978-0-553-07126-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1990 : Hardback
| Title: THE CAVALIER CASE A Jemima Shore Mystery Author(s): Antonia Fraser Publisher: Bloomsbury Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1990 : Hardback
| Title: THE CAVALIER CASE Author(s): Antonia Fraser Publisher: Bloomsbury Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
November 1994 : Paperback
| Title: The Cavalier Case (Bloomsbury Modern Library) Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7475-1932-3 / 978-0-7475-1932-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1992 : Paperback
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 9994592297 / 9789994592296 Publisher: Bantam Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
March 1992 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Cavalier Case, The Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-553-29544-6 / 978-0-553-29544-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Crimeline Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1992 : Paperback
| Title: The Cavalier Case (Paragon Large Print) Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7927-0818-0 / 978-0-7927-0818-6 (USA edition) Publisher: John Curley & Assoc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1991 : Paperback
| Title: The Cavalier Case (Jemima Shore Mystery) Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7493-0324-7 / 978-0-7493-0324-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Mandarin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1991 : Mass Market Paperback
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March 1990 : Paperback
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7475-0608-6 / 978-0-7475-0608-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
February 1992 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Cavalier Case: Complete & Unabridged (G K Hall Audio Series) Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7451-5967-2 / 978-0-7451-5967-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 1992 : Audio Cassette
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-8161-7562-4 / 978-0-8161-7562-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 1992 : Unbound
| Title: The Cavalier Case Author(s): Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0-7704-2519-4 / 978-0-7704-2519-7 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1992 : Unknown
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January 1992 : Unknown
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January 1991 : Unknown
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January 1990 : Unknown
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