Cheap at Half the Price
- ISBN-10
- 1250149347
- ISBN-13
- 9781250149343
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 14
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-05-02
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Author
- Jeffrey Archer
Description
In Cheap at Half the Price, by #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of the short story Jeffrey Archer, the conniving Consuela Rosenheim hunts down her ideal birthday present – and next husband – in London. Will she accomplish her biggest swindle yet, or will she finally get her just desserts? The wily woman is, as Archer opens, “naturally superior to men,” and a pure joy for Archer fans new and old.
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