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Bella Wallis discovers her plots in the alley ways, drawing rooms and dirty laundry of Victorian London. Under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam she takes revenge upon the scoundrels that litter London Society by destroying them - in print.So when Bella discovers a crested cigar case at the scene of a murdered prostitute she and her friends are determined to solve the mystery and to avenge the wretched girl's death. But the owner of the coat of arms is a dangerous and powerful man, and the world he inhabits far murkier than Bella could ever have imagined. With cruelty and violence threatening to engulf her, she plots one last attempt to expose and denounce the murderer. Bella Wallis, widow and writer, must put pen to paper before her nemesis silences her for ever.
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"The Widow's Secret drops us headfirst into the realm of 19th-century sensation fiction - the lurid stuff of Wilkie Collins and old-fashioned penny dreadfuls. Although Brian Thompson is best known for his recent memoirs he's equally convincing on murder, mystery and the Victorians. As the curtain-raiser for a new detective series, this novel is a bold beginning. Thompson is clearly having the time of his life here. He revels in the vigilante justice, ribald talk and Dickensian grotesques at his disposal" (Sunday Telegraph)
"A neo-Victorian yarn that rattles on merrily and rings true. We are told that more instalments of Bella's exploits are on the way. Let them come, say I" (John Sutherland Financial Times)
"Thompson specialises in sharp, elliptical dialogue and brisk little glances into the murk that rises beyond Bella's window" (D. J. Taylor Guardian)
"Brian Thompson writes well and there's a rich vein of humour" (Daily Mail)
"Entertaining, indeed dazzling. Dickensian in its humour, its vivid evocation of a criminal underworld, and the poverty and filth of the Victorian city" (Times Literary Supplement)
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"A neo-Victorian yarn that rattles on merrily and rings true. We are told that more instalments of Bella's exploits are on the way. Let them come, say I" (John Sutherland Financial Times)
"Thompson specialises in sharp, elliptical dialogue and brisk little glances into the murk that rises beyond Bella's window" (D. J. Taylor Guardian)
"Brian Thompson writes well and there's a rich vein of humour" (Daily Mail)
"Entertaining, indeed dazzling. Dickensian in its humour, its vivid evocation of a criminal underworld, and the poverty and filth of the Victorian city" (Times Literary Supplement)
Meet Bella Wallis: a charismatic Victorian widow with a secret sideline in writing sensationalist novels and a fierce determination to seek revenge in print for what can never be achieved in real life.
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