The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas

332 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics historical mysterious slow-paced

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"The Queen's Nicklace" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King'swife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime inv...

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funny 50%
mysterious 50%
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