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Kidnap, curses, and cross-dressing: all in a day's work for sassy crimesolver extraordinaire Bella Wallis Bella Wallis's clandestine career as crime novelist Henry Ellis Margam is proving as successful as ever, but affairs of the heart are proving far trickier. Her long and half-acknowledged engagement to Westland is beginning to strain as his own shadowy government job continually takes him abroad—and then there's the matter of his sister's incarceration in a French nunnery, about which he refuses to say a word. Bella determines that their future life together can only be resolved by getting to the bottom of Westland's secret. Her journey takes her from the Oval, and a vicious curse laid on W.G. Grace, to the desolate moors of Yorkshire, on the trail of some decidedly dangerous women and a surprisingly chatty hermit. When—at opposite ends of Europe—Philip is kidnapped and Bella taken hostage, the old team of Urmiston, Quigley, and Murch must pull together to save them—with varying degrees of bad-mouthing and knockabout violence, but never without bright wit and oodles of panache.
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Brian Thompson has written two award-winning volumes of memoir: Keeping Mum, winner of the Costa Prize for Biography and the PEN/Ackerley Prize, and Clever Girl, longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The first Bella Wallis mystery was The Widow's Secret.
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"With a glorious heroine and wicked humour, Brian Thompson lays bare the sexual shenanigans and hypocrisy of Victorian England."
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Kidnap, cricket and cross-dressing- all in a day's work for Bella Wallis in her third thrilling Victorian mystery.Bella Wallis - respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels - is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland. But Westland's shadowy job, working for the British government, continually takes him abroad and away from the charismatic, impatient Bella. And then there is the matter of Westland's sister's incarceration in a French nunnery, a mystery about which he refuses to say a word.Bella is convinced that their future together can only be resolved by getting to the bottom of his secret. The resulting quest will take her from the Oval, and a vicious curse laid on champion batsman W.G Grace, to the desolate moors of Yorkshire, on the trail of some decidedly dangerous women and a surprisingly chatty hermit. Bella Wallis respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099539476
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