A Jane Austen Treasure Hunt: The Adventure of Miss King's Inheritance

This book casts the reader as Mary King, a young woman who must navigate her way through Regency society, solving a series of puzzles to claim her inheritance.But word of her inheritance has got around, and will she also find the man who loves her for who she is, or a scoundrel who is only interested in her wealth?It’s October 1811, and Mary is celebrating her twenty-first birthday at her home, Oakham Grange, a country house near Meryton.Mary receives a letter from her grandfather, which sets her inheritance quest and adventure in motion: her grandfather has set her a sequence of puzzles, and she must successfully solve them to obtain her inheritance.The letter also reveals a watch - the codewheel set in the cover of the book.While attending a ball at Meryton, she discovers the first of the puzzles, which sets her adventure in motion.Along the way, Mary will also come across puzzles set by her two admirers, Wickham and Arthur, while also trying to solve the mysteries of society’s rules