02501cam a2200397 i 4500 1277741491 TxAuBib 20240522120000.0 200113s2020||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019951864 9781643585048 1643585045 (OCoLC)1128194676 TxAuBib rda Thompson, Victoria, author. City of scoundrels [large print] / Victoria Thompson. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020. 422 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Elizabeth Miles finds herself in a position no con can help her escape. Her beloved fiancé, Gideon Bates, is awaiting his turn in the draft to fight in the Great War. Elizabeth is finding it hard to think of anything else, but Gideon has thrown himself into his work, preparing wills for soldiers before they ship out. Corporal Tom Preston is part owner of Preston Shoes, a company that is making footwear for the army, so he has a rather large estate. He needs a new will, however, because he has just been secretly married to a woman whom his family would never approve. He wants to make sure she and their unborn child are provided for if he does not return. When Tom is later reported killed, Elizabeth and Gideon learn that the new will has gone missing after Tom's bride revealed her identity to his family. Unless the new will is found and validated, the original will, which leaves everything to Tom's brother, will prevail and the wife and child will get nothing. If Tom's new bride survives, that is. Some terrible threats have been leveled against her, and Elizabeth and Gideon must figure out a way, legal or not quite, to secure Tom's fortune for his wife and child while saving her life in the process"-- Provided by publisher. 20240522. Swindlers and swindling Fiction. Swindlers and swindling. Extortion Fiction. Scandals Fiction. Upper class Fiction. Widows Fiction. Wills Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Homicide Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Fiction. Large print books. fast Mystery fiction.