{"product_id":"power-corrupts-trevor-bulpit-9798196460869","title":"Power Corrupts: Tales of Upton House Book Three","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHampshire,1817. Martin Bartholomew is a former army captain who inherited a country estate he didn't expect and a talent for attracting trouble he would happily do without. His new wife Marianne is considerably better prepared for both.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen the senior partner of a respected London law firm is found hanged in his own home with a verdict of suicide accepted by everyone except his widow, Martin finds himself pulled into an investigation that begins with a financial fraud and ends somewhere altogether more dangerous. The conspiracy leads from the respectable offices of Solomon's solicitors to the candlelit rooms of Randall Road, a club whose members value their privacy above almost everything, and to powerful figures who would do much to avoid exposure.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlongside him, Andrew Ransley, a government agent whose real name is not Ransley, can pass himself off as almost anyone and enjoys it considerably; also Martin's valet Brian Jarvis, who just loves dangerous mischief and then Marianne herself, who attends the club in a capacity that was not her husband's idea and is not entirely to his comfort.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower Corrupts\u003c\/i\u003e is the third novel in the Tales of Upton Park series; well-researched Regency fiction with warmth, wit, and a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of government. Consider it akin to Georgette Heyer with rather more peril and rather less dancing. New readers can begin here; those who have followed Martin from \u003ci\u003eAn Unexpected Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e will find the stakes considerably higher and the household only marginally calmer as the Upton estate continues to prosper.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trevor Bulpit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196460869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d","brand":"Trevor Bulpit","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173618688255,"sku":"9798196460869","price":16.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d1e0449-2e66-4de2-8f14-818701014cea.jpg?v=1788955570","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-corrupts-trevor-bulpit-9798196460869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}