Poldark Novels X

Cuby Poldark, Jeremy's widow, meets a young man, Philip Prideaux who has left the army... Clowance meets a former suitor of hers, Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, who is a younger son of a duke. He had asked her to marry him a few years earlier and now he renews his courtship. Clowance is unsure of her feelings having been so deceived by Stephen.... but she begins to consider him as a husband. He is well off enough to support her but he's not the heir to a title. Philip Prideaux secures a goverment job and begins to investigate the deaths of the young women. They were all working class, but then Agneta Treneglos goes missing. She has been acting more strangely than usual in the past months, since Valentine broke off their affair. She keeps going to see him or to call on his wife, and Selina, who has now had a son by Valentine is furious. Valentine gets more angry with Agneta, and when she disappears he is aware that people are talking and saying that he is the killer of the poor handicapped girl and the other women. Her body is found and Valentine's guilt is freely talked about although he was in Ireland. He has bought some ships and is tyring to make a living but he is losing money and only makes a little money, smuggling.