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  The Captain's Table: A Bella Wallis Mystery (Hardback) By (author) Brian Thompson

  

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  Short Description for The Captain's TableLondon, 1875. At Lady Cornford's famous soiree everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margam's latest hit. Only a few people know that one of Lady C's guests, 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.
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  • Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS
  • Published: 04 June 2009
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780701184131 ISBN 10: 0701184132
  • Sales rank: 819,234

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Full description for The Captain's Table

• 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.