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What can you trust when jewels glitter, identities shift, and a good name matters as much as wealth?
In The Diamond Coterie, Lawrence L. Lynch brings together stolen jewels, hidden identities, and high-society secrets. Diamonds sit at the heart of a detective puzzle, drawing attention to a close circle linked by wealth. The mystery invites you to look beyond the glitter and question what a polished appearance can hide.
This is a world where reputation carries weight and scandal threatens the security of wealthy drawing rooms. False faces make trust uncertain, while the slow unwinding of the puzzle asks for patience and attention. Victorian manners give the story its atmosphere: beneath social polish lie questions about money, identity, and what people fear others may discover.
What you’ll discover
- Diamonds at the center Follow a mystery shaped by precious stones, stolen wealth, and the secrets surrounding them.
- Faces you cannot trust Let hidden identities keep you questioning the people behind their carefully presented appearances.
- Reputation under pressure Explore a social world where scandal can threaten as much as the loss of jewels.
- A slowly unfolding puzzle Enjoy the patient curiosity of old-fashioned detection, with room to linger over each question.
- Victorian polish and secrets Step into wealthy drawing rooms where period manners frame the tension beneath the surface.
Who will love it
Perfect for readers who enjoy clue hunting, clever disguises, brave heroines, family secrets behind polished society doors, and a plot where every scene adds another piece to a larger puzzle.
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- Two shocks strike the town of W
- Constance trusts a doctor with no past
- A tramp drops from a tree
- A second detective offers a smooth wrong answer
- A quarrel and a lost letter
- The bear in the drawing room
- A plot closes around Heath
- Friends and hidden dangers
- The cost of loyalty
Who’s who
- Constance WardourA proud, independent young heiress who seems to lose her jewels, defends her friends and falls in love with a man the town distrusts.
- Doctor Clifford HeathA handsome physician with an unknown past, quick with a fist and a joke, who keeps his own counsel.
- Neil J. BathurstA brilliant detective who works in many disguises and takes up the Wardour case for reasons of his own.
- Jerry BelknapA smooth private detective hired by the Lamottes who offers neat theories and has secrets of his own.
- Sybil LamotteConstance's closest friend, who leaves home with a man she despises and carries a terrible secret.
- Evan LamotteSybil's drinking younger brother, called the black sheep, who loves his sister fiercely and watches his family.
- Francis LamotteSybil's handsome elder brother, who wants to marry Constance and resents the doctor.
- John BurrillA coarse former mill foreman, vain and greedy, who claims a place in high society.
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Der Diamantenklub
by Lawrence L. Lynch · 1882
A robbed heiress, a runaway bride and two rival detectives tangle in one mill town.
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What if the richest woman in town is robbed on the very day her best friend runs off with a brute? The Diamond Coterie is a detective novel by Lawrence L.
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Two shocks strike the town of W
On a Saturday in June 1880, the wealthy mill town of W learns of a burglary at Wardour Place, where the famous Wardour diamonds are gone. That afternoon, Sybil Lamotte, daughter of a leading citizen, elopes with John Burrill, a drunken former mill foreman.
The town paper treats both as sensations, and the gossips have plenty to discuss. Constance Wardour, the young owner of the jewels, stays calm, locks the disturbed rooms and keeps a small secret. She finds a vial of chloroform beside her bed and a torn handkerchief across her face.
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What is The Diamond Coterie about?
It follows the theft of the Wardour diamonds in a mill town, a mysterious elopement on the same day, and a murder that threatens an innocent doctor. Detectives, disguises and family secrets drive the plot.
Who is Neil Bathurst?
Bathurst is a skilled detective who loves disguises. He appears first as a tramp, then as other characters, and he works behind the scenes to uncover who robbed Constance and who is plotting against the doctor.
What does the Diamond Coterie mean?
It is the name city detectives give to a clever gang of jewel thieves who steal diamonds and fine silver without leaving clues. Who belongs to the group is part of the mystery.
The author
Lawrence L. Lynch
1853–1914 · American mystery writer
Lawrence L. Lynch was the pen name of Emma Murdoch Van Deventer, an American mystery writer born in Oswego, Illinois, in 1853. She lived in Illinois and died in 1914. She wrote mystery novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Madeline Payne, the Detective’s Daughter and The Diamond Coterie.
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