A Ghost in Monte Carlo

by Barbara Cartland

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Eighteen-year-old Mistral is an innocent abroad in the sophisticated Cte D'Azur, where princes and millionaires mingle in the casinos and sumptuous hotels while others plot to relieve them of their riches. Accompanied only by her embittered and domineering Aunt Emilie and kindly servant Jeanne, Mistral appears dressed all in grey like a ghost in the salons and ballrooms of Monte Carlo and sets Society's tongues wagging. It's not long before her waif-like beauty has men falling at the feet of show more Madamoiselle Fântóme - gentlemen such as Sir Robert Stanford. But on her sister's bewildering but strict instructions, she must not converse with any but the Russian Prince Nikolai, who's also keen to woo her, as is an opulent Indian Rajah… Something about Mistral touches Sir Robert's heart - and he cannot understand why Mistral appears afraid to be with him. Yet both of them crave love. Only if Mistral's innocent eyes are finally opened to the truth - that Aunt Emilie's motives are borne not of concern for her niece but of pure evil and greed - will she find her heart's desire… show less

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Pawn of Vengeance
It was the gayest season Monte Carlo had ever known, and of all the beautiful bejewelled women, Mademoiselle Fantôme was causing a sensation. Who was the exquisite “ghost,” with her shining golden hair and dreaming dark eyes? Why did her formidable aunt guard her so carefully?
Even Mademoiselle herself did not understand the seductive role she was playing. But her troubled young heart knew that evil was drawing close to her, that she was a pawn in a mysterious plot to avenge an old wrong.
Too late, she discovered that jealousy and bitterness were threatening to destroy her new-found love.
i read this book in high school...and still remember the story duno how..well it goes as such mistral is a girl who lives with her aunt and who always dresses in grey, which makes people curious ...but later she realises that it was a scheme set up by her aunt and must not follow her orders in order to save her love...
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"In the gayest season Monte Carlo had ever seen, two women caused a sensation. One was elderly, her expression malignant, secretive and evil; the other was exquisitely lovely and passionately alive. But she was also a myster woman, about whom nothing at all was known save that she always dressed in grey and called herself Mademoiselle Fantome..."

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Barbara Cartland was born in Edgbaston, England on July 9, 1901, and christened as Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland. With her mother and two younger brothers, she moved to London in 1918 after her father was killed during World War I. In 1920, Cartland began writing society gossip pieces for London's Daily Express. Her first novel, Jig-Saw, was show more published in 1923. Barbara Cartland married Alexander McCorquodale in 1927. In 1929, the couple had a daughter, Raine, who later went on to become stepmother to the late Diana Princess of Wales. Cartland divorced McCorquodale in 1932, and in 1936 married Hugh McCorquodale, a cousin of her exhusband. Cartland has written over 600 books, mostly romance novels for women readers, and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's top-selling author. Cartland's autobiography, I Reach for the Stars: An Autobiography, was published in 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Atkinson, Helga (Translator)
Murray, Jean (Translator)

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Canonical title
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Original title
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
Original publication date
1951
People/Characters
Mistral (Mademoiselle Fantome)
Important places
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Related movies
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990 | IMDb)

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Fiction and Literature, Romance, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
LCC
PR6005 .A765 .G47Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960
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