Book description
London is alive with gossip about the thrilling new book by
sensationalist author Henry Ellis Margam, but only a select group of
people know that the real author is beautiful widow, and member of
high society, Bella Wallis.
One of her confidantes is the dashing Philip Westland, who comes to
Bella now with a problem: his best friend Kennet is smitten with the
heiress Mary Skillane but Mary's father, Sir William, has promised her
to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure-seeker. Mary is due to inherit the
Skillane pearls, which are currently residing in a Cornsih bank vault,
but it seems that the pearls were ill-gotten.
Can Bella and her friends reunite the young lovers and escape the
attention of the villainous Judd?
Brian Thompson was born in London in 1935 and now lives in Oxford. He
has written two award-winning volumes of memoir:
Keeping Mum
(2006), winner of the Costa Prize for Biography and the PEN/Ackerley
Prize, and
Clever Girl
(2007), longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The first Bella Wallis
mystery,
The Widow's Secret
, was published in 2008.
