title: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished: The Third Rule of Scoundrels (Rules of Scoundrels)
author:  Sarah MacLean 
description: *Starred Review* Temple thought he killed her. Twelve years ago, he woke up, very drunk, in Mara Lowes bedchamber. The sheets were stained with blood, and Mara was nowhere to be seen. Dallying with his fathers latest bride-to-be on the night before her wedding is scandalous enough, but the possibility that he may have murdered her as well makes Temple a social outcast. Now the Killer Duke of Lamont, Temple has built a new life for himself as the part-owner and muscle behind Londons most notorious gambling hell, the Fallen Angel. When Temple hears footsteps following him home late one night, the last person he expects to see when he turns around is a dead woman. Mara ruined his life, but now she offers Temple the redemption he desperately craves, if he will only meet her demands. In the third stunning installment of her Rule of Scoundrels series, RITA Awardwinning MacLean richly rewards readers with a dark, intense, and supremely sexy story that will connect emotionally on every level. Brimming with brilliant dialogue, memorable characters, and just the right dash of dry wit, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished is everything a romance should be. --John Charles
zlib_text: A BOOK OF SCOUNDRELS
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  A BOOK OF
  SCOUNDRELS
  by CHARLES WHIBLEY
  
  A BOOK OF SCOUNDRELS
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  INTRODUCTION
  There are other manifestations of greatness than to relieve suffering or
  to wreck an empire.  Julius C<ae>sar and John Howard are not the only
  heroes who have smiled upon the world.  In the supreme adaptation of
  means to an end there is a constant nobility, for neither ambition nor virtue
  is the essential of a perfect action.  How shall you contemplate with
  indifference the career of an artist whom genius or good guidance has
  compelled to exercise his peculiar skill, to indulge his finer aptitudes?  A
  masterly theft rises in its claim to respect high above the reprobation of the
  moralist.  The scoundrel, when once justice is quit of him, has a right to
  be appraised by his actions, not by their effect; and he dies secure in the
  knowledge that he is commonly more distinguished, if he be less loved,
  than his virtuous contemporaries.
  While murder is wellnigh as old as life, property and the 