The Captain’s Table
Bella Wallis Victorian Mysteries (Related to this series)
- Author Brian Thompson
- Narrator Margaret Holt
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 23 December 2010
- Run Time 6 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
London, 1875. At Lady Cornford's famous soiree (sugared almonds and tittle-tattle) everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margam's latest hit, The Widow's Secret. Only a few people know that one of Lady C's guests, the enigmatic Bella Wallis, is in fact the bestselling novelist. Bella punishes evil-doers by exposing them as thinly-disguised characters in the books she writes under her male pseudonym. Armed with her pen, the handsome Miss Wallis surrounds herself with useful men: the dashing Philip Westland, possibly a government spy; Captain Quigley, Bella's fixer, and his shady assistant, Murch, who can always crack a bone or two when someone needs persuading.
Westland comes to Bella with a problem: his best friend Kennett is smitten by the heiress Miss Mary Skillane. But Mary's father, Sir William is 'an old fraud with a beautiful daughter' and she has been promised to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure seeker. Mary is due to inherit the Skillane pearls, currently residing in a red lacquer box in a Cornish bank vault. But the pearls it seems were ill-gotten, and as Bella and her band uncover more of the strange business, a new Henry Ellis Margam novel looks set to be written, if Bella can first side-step her own affairs of the heart, and evade a brutal threat to her life...
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| Author | Brian Thompson |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Margaret Holt |
| Series | Bella Wallis Victorian Mysteries |
| Duration | 6 hours and 47 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781407084763 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Genre | Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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