I placed
A Lighthearted Quest by Ann Bridge on my Watch List a month ago for reasons I no longer remember, but received notice this morning that the price has dropped to $1.99. In fact,
eight of the author's books have dropped.
From my musty old hardcover
Whodunit? A Guide to Crime, Suspense & Spy Fiction : "
Bridge, Ann (1889-1974): British espionage novelist, pen-name of Lady Mary Dolling O'Malley. The resourceful Julia Probyn, an amateur in the field of espionage, is the protagonist in eight novels which are exciting, sometimes wryly amusing, enjoyable as travelogues, but devoid of the obligatory brutality of so many other spy writers." The book then goes on to rate highly and recommend
A Lighthearted Quest (1956) and
Emergency in the Pyranees (1965).