title: A Death in Norfolk: Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries
author:  Ashley Gardner 
description: Award-winning Ashley Gardner is a pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ashley. Under both namesand a third, Allyson JamesAshley has written more than 35 published novels and novellas in mystery and romance. Her books have won several RT BookReviews Reviewers Choice awards (including Best Historical Mystery for The Sudbury School Murders), and Romance Writers of Americas RITA (given for the best romance novels and novellas of the year). Ashleys books have been translated into a dozen different languages and have earned starred reviews in Booklist. More about the Captain Lacey series can be found at the website: www.gardnermysteries.com. Or email Ashley Gardner at: gardnermysteries@cox.net
zlib_text: **A Death in Norfolk**
  
    
  
  **by Ashley Gardner**
  
    
  
  **Book 7 of the**
  
   **Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries**
  
    
  
    
  
  **A Death in Norfolk**
  
  Copyright 2011 by Jennifer Ashley (Ashley Gardner)
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Excerpt from _A Disappearance in Drury Lane_ copyright 2011
  
  by Jennifer Ashley (Ashley Gardner)
  
    
  
  Published 2011 by Jennifer Ashley (Ashley Gardner)
  
  [ _www.gardnermysteries.com_](http://www.gardnermysteries.com/)
  
    
  
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   **Chapter One**
  
    
  
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