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* In Creator/GeorgetteHeyer's ''The Foundling'', a con artist uses a beautiful waif to lure rich, naive idiots into betrothal, then threatens legal action when they come to their senses and run.

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* In Creator/GeorgetteHeyer's ''The Foundling'', ''Literature/TheFoundling'', a con artist uses a beautiful waif to lure rich, naive idiots into betrothal, then threatens legal action when they come to their senses and run.



* The ninth book of Ann Perry's ''William Monk'' books (HistoricalDetectiveFiction set in VictorianLondon) is called ''Breach of Promise''. It starts when a highly public lawsuit is brought by the parents of a young heiress against a man who supposedly promised to marry her, but didn't. The man insists she must have been misinterpreting him, but his explanation is pretty feeble, so it's suspected instead that he's got some secret reason for backing out. Monk, the detective, is asked to find out what it is. (Then the man turns up dead, because he's in a murder mystery.)

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* The ninth book of Ann Perry's ''William Monk'' ''Literature/WilliamMonk'' books (HistoricalDetectiveFiction set in VictorianLondon) is called ''Breach of Promise''. It starts when a highly public lawsuit is brought by the parents of a young heiress against a man who supposedly promised to marry her, but didn't. The man insists she must have been misinterpreting him, but his explanation is pretty feeble, so it's suspected instead that he's got some secret reason for backing out. Monk, the detective, is asked to find out what it is. (Then the man turns up dead, because he's in a murder mystery.)

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