Ordway didn’t think it proper to inquire into another person’s private affairs, but how else could you find out if a mark was worth fleecing?
Ordway’s rules were remarkably similar to those followed by a good con man: Don’t monopolize the conversation. She didn’t want to break any etiquette rules that would expose her as a counterfeit lady, after all. Ordway’s chapters on calls and conversation. Edith B Ordway) are doing their best to tutor Elizabeth in what she views as the biggest con of all:Įlizabeth was more than prepared She’d spent most of the previous evening and that morning studying Mrs. Bates and a small coterie of friends (as well as a renowned book of etiquette written by the esteemed Mrs. While Gideon doesn’t mind her past, he does understand that life will be much easier for himself and his wife-to-be if she’s seen as a respectable member of high society. This poses a bit of a problem, as Gideon is so morally correct that he will not tell a lie, whereas Elizabeth has spent most of her life lying in her chosen profession of con artist. Bates, a formidable society matron, and quickly falls in love with her upstanding lawyer son, Gideon. After falling in with a group of New York City society ladies who’d gone down to Washington to agitate for women’s suffrage-and landed in jail for their troubles-Elizabeth finds herself under the wing of Mrs.
#City of secrets series
We begin with our engaging heroine, Elizabeth Miles, the Counterfeit Lady of the series title. City of Secrets is a sheer delight of a novel, written with such verve and wit and heart that I didn’t want it to end and can’t wait to read more! I would like to state that I, for one, absolutely and uncategorically did.
In the author’s note at the end of this novel, Victoria Thompson hopes that the reader had as much fun reading the novel as she had writing it. City of Secrets by Victoria Thompson is the second book in the Counterfeit Lady series starring on-the-run Elizabeth Miles.
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