Captain Lacey Series by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

4.32 · 78 ratings
  • The Necklace Affair and Other Stories (Captain Lacey #4.5, 4.6, 4.7)
    #4.5, 4.6, 4.7

    The Necklace Affair and Other Stories (Captain Lacey #4.5, 4.6, 4.7)

    Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2011

    Contents:* The Necklace Affair* The Gentleman's Walking Stick* The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald

  • The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald (Captain Lacey #4.7)
    #4.7

    The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald (Captain Lacey #4.7)

    Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2000

    A short story set in 1817 London involving Captain Gabriel Lacey, originally published in the Spring 2000 issue of Over My Dead Body mystery magazine. Included later in the anthology, "The Necklace Affair and Other Stories", and also with The Gentleman's Walking Stick (Captain Lacey #4.6).Finalist for The Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2001 Derringer Award, Best "Short" category (1,201–10,000 words).

  • The Thames River Murders (Captain Lacey #10)
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    The Thames River Murders (Captain Lacey #10)

    Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2015

    Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders... more

  • The Alexandria Affair (Captain Lacey #11)
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    The Alexandria Affair (Captain Lacey #11)

    Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2016

    Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however--James Denis has tasked him with finding an "object" in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost.The task does not turn out to be so simple. Locating what Denis wants in the teeming city proves difficult, sending Lacey and Grenville exploring tombs and temples down the Nile... more

  • Murder in St. Giles (Captain Lacey #13)
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    Murder in St. Giles (Captain Lacey #13)

    Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2018

    London, 1819: When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what’s more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested for the crime. This is made difficult because Donata's late husband’s odious cousin has materialized to try to wrest her son into his care. After all, seven-year-old Peter is a viscount, and his cousin wants to get closer to the title... more

  • Death at Brighton Pavilion (Captain Lacey #14)
    #14

    Death at Brighton Pavilion (Captain Lacey #14)

    Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2019

    When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer. The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca in Spain seven years before... more

  • The Custom House Murders (Captain Lacey #15)
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    The Custom House Murders (Captain Lacey #15)

    Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2020

    Captain Lacey encounters an old army friend just returned from Antigua, who is being accused of smuggling and possibly murder. Lacey decides to help the man, whom he considers honorable, to clear his name.Meanwhile James Denis has given Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames... more

  • Murder in the Eternal City (Captain Lacey #16)
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    Murder in the Eternal City (Captain Lacey #16)

    Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2022

    When I agree to take my family to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I hardly imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector, one Conte de Luca. Before I can approach this count, I am recruited by a Roman a man to help rescue his daughter from a cool aristocrat, and then asked to solve a murder of an Englishman—by a man who is already dead... more

  • A Darkness in Seven Dials (Captain Lacey #17)
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    A Darkness in Seven Dials (Captain Lacey #17)

    Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2024

    March 1820When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the unknown man Denis is supposed to have killed.I soon find myself beleaguered by enemies from Denis’s past, secret societies, and a host of people who want Denis to hang. In addition I receive word from a mysterious young woman I haven't heard from in years who now seeks my help.

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