Murder in the Pleasure Gardens — Rosemary Stevens

In Regency England, Beau Brummell stood as the uncrown king of genteel Society. Whatever he wore was the height of 'fashion. Wherever he went was the place to be. And the last place one would expect to find him was in the middle of a murder mystery. But then, Beau Brummell was never one to do what was expected...

After one too many distasteful meals at his usual gentleman's club, Beau Brummell opens his own, named Wader's. But his fashionable establishment becomes embroiled in scandal when Lieutenant Nevin believes he's been cheated at cards by government official Theobald Jacombe. The confrontation escalates when Jacombe makes off-color remarks about the lieutenant's intended... infuriating the young officer into challenging him to a duel... Soon, Jacombe is found murdered at Vauxhall's Pleasure Gardens--and the lieutenant detained as the most likely suspect. Convinced of Nevill's innocence, the master of style must deduce who would kill a respected member of the Home Office with a supposedly spotless reputation...