by Victoria Holt · Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423305544
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The King of the Castle is a novel by British writer Victoria Holt, published in 1981. The story follows Dallas Lawson, a young woman determined to continue her dead father's work restoring paintings at Chateau Gaillard. However, her arrival is not well received, and she meets the enigmatic Comte de la Talle, accused of murder by his own daughter. The plot unfolds in an atmosphere of mystery and suspense, where Dallas must unravel secrets and face unexpected dangers.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
