Blotto, Twinks and the Maharajah's jewel / Simon Brett.
Momo rauemi: TextSeries: Brett, Simon, Blotto and Twinks mystery ; book 10.Kaiwhakaputa: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Isis, 2022Edition: Large print editionWhakaahuatanga: 270 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- 9781399125246
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An Old Etonian chum begs Blotto to join him on a cricket tour of India. But they still need a twelfth man - a vacancy which his ridiculously capable sister Twinks will have no problem in filling. The Dowager Duchess assents readily: Blotto is more tolerable when situated on the other side of the world, and marrying Twinks off to a rich Maharajah would solve the issue of Tawcester Towers' perpetually cash-draining plumbing. So the two set off on a ship full of the Fishing Fleet: young woman desperate to marry well in India (only, once having encountered the dashing Blotto, a lot of them fancy the idea of getting married within hours of having left Southampton). But the voyage is disrupted by the disappearance of a Maharajah's fantastic diamond, the Star of Koorbleimee - a theft to which Blotto confesses...
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