title: Bravo for the Bride
author:  Elizabeth Eyre 
description: Billed as historical mystery, Eyre's latest tale of political and personal intrigue in medieval Italy is weak on both fronts. Melodramatic episodes in three duchies follow the strangling of a bad-tempered 15-year-old princess the day after her arranged marriage to a loutish prince. Assigned to find those responsible is hero-sleuth Sigismondo, a soldier of fortune with a shaved head and commanding presence, assisted by his servant, Benno, who successfully poses as a halfwit and carries in his jerkin a small woolly dog named Biondello. Sigismondo quickly becomes the target of a killer or killers, poses as an engineer to spy on and blow up a fort being built by a renegade duke, uses a slingshot to kill three brigands who attack another highborn lady and also rescues her from an abductor?and finally tracks down and duels the killer of the princess. This, the fourth Sigismondo caper (following Death of a Duchess), from England's Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey writing as Elizabeth Eyre, features a cast made up of too much caricature and too little depth. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  > _**Marrying Simone**_
  
  >  **A** **NNA** **J** **ACOBS**
  
  >  **Contents**
  
    1. Title Page
    2. Chapter One 
    3. Chapter Two 
    4. Chapter Three 
    5. Chapter Four 
    6. Chapter Five 
    7. Chapter Six 
    8. Chapter Seven 
    9. Chapter Eight 
    10. Chapter Nine 
    11. Chapter Ten 
    12. Chapter Eleven 
    13. Chapter Twelve 
    14. Chapter Thirteen 
    15. Chapter Fourteen 
    16. Chapter Fifteen 
    17. Chapter Sixteen 
    18. Chapter Seventeen 
    19. Chapter Eighteen 
    20. Chapter Nineteen 
    21. Chapter Twenty 
    22. Chapter Twenty-One 
    23. Chapter Twenty-Two 
    24. Chapter Twenty-Three 
    25. Chapter Twenty-Four 
    26. Chapter Twenty-Five 
    27. Chapter Twenty-Six 
    28. Chapter Twenty-Seven 
    29. Chapter Twenty-Eight 
    30. Chapter Twenty-Nine 
    31. Chapter Thirty 
    32. Chapter Thirty-One 
    33. Chapter Thirty-Two 
    34. By Anna Jacobs 
    35. About the Author 
    36. Copyright 
  
  > _Chapter One_
  
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