Vorwort
Glamorous, glorious heroine Bella Wallis must investigate the case of an unhappy heiress and some mysterious pearls in her second thrilling Victorian mystery.
Autorentext
Brian Thompson
Klappentext
'With a glorious heroine and wicked humour, Brian Thompson lays bare the sexual shenanigans and hypocrisy of Victorian England' John Harvey
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 Kennett 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 Skillaine pearls, which are currently residing in a Cornish bank vault. But it seems that the pearls were ill-gotten, and as Bella and her friends uncover more of the story it seems that a new Henry Ellis Margam novel looks set to be written if Bella can side-step her own affairs of the heart and evade a brutal threat to her life...