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The sailor's ransom / by Brian Thompson.

by Thompson, Brian, 1935-

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Vintage, c2010.

Women novelists -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Thompson, Brian, 1935- Bella Wallis mysteries ; 2.

9780099539490 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

The Captain's table.

252 p. ; 20 cm.

"A Bella Wallis mystery"--Cover.

[Also published under the title: "The Captain's table".

"Its 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, and a new group of criminals brought firmly to justice."--Publisher.

Historical mystery fiction.

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