Miss Caoline Bingley Private Detective

When Caroline Bingley receives a secretive letter from her friend, Georgina Darcy, she heads to London to find and attempt to help her friend. Georgina's maid, Jade, had disappeared overnight and Georgina had taken a public coach to travel to London to find her. Caroline is travelling in her own coach with her maid, butler and driver but it is a long trip travelling on roads covered with snow. 

Caroline has deduced where Georgina may have gone and takes her to her London apartment. Caroline listens to Georgina's story and they set out to try and find Jade. Unfortunately when Jade is discovered she is with her brother who has been murdered. Caroline is determined to discover who is responsible.

Set in Regency England, Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar is a story about class, attitudes to people from other countries, slavery, greed, Napoleonic Wars and the East India Company. Above all it is an enjoyable crime novel with frequent references to characters from Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice.