Bella Wallis: A Victorian Mystery Quartet Hardcover - 2013

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Bella Wallis is the glamorous widow with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the seedy backstreets of London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam. After many surprising adventures she has finally been persuaded by her new husband Westland to lay down her pen forever, but neither of them can predict the violent event that takes place at Bella's favourite restaurant that Christmas, and which begs to be investigated. In what proves to be Bella's most daring and dangerous mission yet, we have a fitting finale to a fabulous sequence of witty, pin-sharp mysteries from prize-winning author, Brian Thompson.
Here, for the first time, all four Bella stories are gathered together in one delicious volume: "The Widow's Secret," an effervescent romp to Paris on the trail of the owner of a mysterious cigar case; "The Sailor's Ransom," a tale of pearls and swine, set on the Cornish coast and the high seas; "The Player's Curse," where kidnap, cricket and cross-dressing coincide in a riotous mystery, and finally, "The Whole Story," in which Bella is caught up in an anarchist bomb attack at her favourite restaurant, Fracatelli's on the Strand... and only just survives to tell the tale.

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