Bella Wallis - A Victorian Mystery Quartet by Brian Thompson is published by Vintage Digital, which is a Random House brand, but still seems (for the moment anyway) to be couponable on Kobo Canada, which means some of the codes from the current (ended yesterday) contest will work on it. Or, at least, I got one to work...
The quartet contains:
The Widow's Secret
The Sailor's Ransom
The Player's Curse
The Whole Story
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Bella Wallis is a glamorous widow with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the dodgy backstreets of Victorian London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam. With dodgy deals, scheming aristocrats and stolen kisses behind closed doors, prize-winning author Brian Thompson conjures up an irresistible quartet filled top to toe with seedy Dickensian glamour.
We start with The Widow's Secret, an effervescent romp to Paris on the trail of the owner of a mysterious cigar case; then The Sailor's Ransom, a tale of pearls and swine, set on the Cornish coast and the high seas; and The Player's Curse, where kidnap, cricket and cross-dressing coincide in a riotous mystery. We end with the previously unpublished The Whole Story, in which Bella is caught up in an anarchist bomb attack at her favourite restaurant, Fracatelli's on the Strand...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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book info:
Random House, September 2013
Imprint: Vintage Digital
ISBN: 9781448138593