Without Fear: A Martha Beale Novel (Digital Original) (The Martha Beale Mysteries #3)

By: Cordelia Frances Biddle

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Synopsis: Philadelphia heiress and amateur sleuth Martha Beale investigates the identity of a headless corpse found on Joseph Bonaparte&’s estate in the third novel in acclaimed author Cordelia Frances Biddle&’s Martha Beale Mystery seriesWith her hands full raising her adopted children and managing her father&’s financial empire, Martha Beale is also grieving the loss of her beau. Thomas Kelman, an assistant to the mayor, felt he could never belong in Martha&’s upper-crust society and has boarded a merchant ship bound for South America. But the grisly discovery of a decapitated corpse on Joseph Bonaparte&’s palatial estate outside of Philadelphia while Martha is visiting there will take the heiress far from her privileged world.The dead woman is believed to be a missing employee of the Quaker City Mill. Martha searches for answers while also trying to help her friend Becky Taitt, a former actress and runaway wife whose abusive socialite husband will kill her before he lets her take custody of his child and heir. From the drawing rooms of Philadelphia&’s elite to the inhumane factories and textile mills that exploit working-class women and children, Without Fear exposes the ever-growing divide between rich and poor and a festering evil that touches everyone, including Martha&’s daughter.