title: An English Murder: A Novel
author:  Louise Doughty 
description: &quot;Gripping.&quot;<br>&#8212; <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br><br>&quot;This is cozy noir, original, unpredictable, and almost certain to please the reader in search of something different.&quot;<br>&#8212; <i>The San Diego Union-Tribune</i><br><br>&quot;Spellbinding.&quot;<br>&#8212; <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (starred review)<br><br>&quot;Superbly readable and beautifully put together.&quot;<br>&#8212; <i>The Independent on Sunday</i>
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  # THE BEDFORD-ROW CONSPIRACY
  
  
  ## William Makepeace Thackeray
  
  
  
  
  
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  A story of Charles de Bernard furnished the plot of
  
  
  "The Bedford-Row Conspiracy."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### THE BEDFORD-ROW CONSPIRACY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### OF THE LOVES OF MR. PERKINS AND MISS GORGON, AND OF THE TWO GREAT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### FACTIONS IN THE TOWN OF OLDBOROUGH.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "My dear John," cried Lucy, with a very wise look indeed, "it must
  
  
  and shall be so. As for Doughty Street, with our means, a house is
  
  
  out of the question. We must keep three servants, and Aunt Biggs
  
  
  says the taxes are one-and-twenty pounds a year."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "I have seen a sweet place at Chelsea," remarked John: "Paradise
  
  
  Row, No. 17,--garden--greenhouse--fifty pounds a year--omnibus to
  
  
  town within a mile."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "What! that I may be left alone all day, and you spend a fortune in
  
  
  driving backward and fo