Beggar's Choice Author: Patricia Wentworth
	Book Information Publisher: Warner Books Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 2 ISBN-13: 9780446359092 - ISBN-10: 0446359092 Publication Date: 9/1/1990 Pages: 252

Car Fairfax had hit rock bottom. First, he was rejected for a job because his shoes were worn out. Next, he ran into Isobel, whom he had not seen for three lovelorn years. Finally, a stranger handed him a printed flyer that read: "Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to..."



But Car's new job was odd. His sole duty, it seemed, was to dine in chic restaurants. While his mysterious boss remained undercover, his glamorous cousin Anna suddenly offered Car 500 pounds to get her out of a jam. And then his friend Fay said she was in a jam and desperately needed five hundred! Even as he pondered the curious affair, Car slowly slid into a net of dangerous deceit and criminal skulduggery that threatened both himself and his future with lsobel...

PATRICIA WENTWORTH--GRAND MASTER OF MYSTERY
For fifty years Patricia Wentworth made the British murder mystery synonymous with clever, but chilling, crimes of greed and passion. Famous for Miss Maud Silver, her highly acclaimed series detective, Ms. Wentworth has written more than sixty superb mysteries--all featuring wonderful, feisty female detectives undeterred by red herrings or even redder blood.