THE CAPTAIN’S TABLE: A BELLA WALLIS MYSTERY
Book ID/图书代码： 11320008B24612
English Summary/英文概要： 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…
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 科斯達文學獎得主BRIAN THOMPSON 首次嘗試維多利亞時代幽默推理小說 1875年，維多利亞時代的倫敦，C夫人的晚宴中，大家都在討論熱門新書《寡婦秘密》，只有少數人知道C夫人的神秘嘉賓貝菈‧華莉斯就是這個暢銷小說的作者亨利‧艾力斯。受人尊敬的寡婦貝菈‧華莉斯以男性筆名寫小說揭發上流社會的壞蛋。她有一群好幫手：可能是政府間諜、打扮時髦、深愛她的飛利浦；負責調停的花花公子貴格利上尉；以及神出鬼沒的助手馬西。
這次，飛利浦的好友肯特被美麗的瑪莉小姐迷得神昏顛倒，但瑪莉的父親是一個老騙子，而瑪莉早就被父親安排嫁給一個粗鄙的尋寶者。瑪莉即將繼承她們家傳的珍珠，但這珍珠當初似乎是以不當手段獲得。貝菈與她的夥伴是否可以揭開這些不正當的生意？看來貝菈似乎又有新題材可以寫書，只要她能平安……
機制又富有正義感的貝菈，以筆與三位男幫手為利器，與維多利亞時代的黑暗力量抗衡～
貝菈‧華莉斯系列網站：http://www.bellawallis.co.uk/index.php
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Awards/获奖情况：科斯達傳記文學獎與PEN/Ackerley傳記獎得主
曾入圍英國重要獎項--薩繆爾‧傑克遜獎（Samuel Johnson Prize） 版權已售：西班牙
With a glorious heroine and wicked humour, Brian Thompson lays bare the sexual shenanigans and hypocrisy of Victorian England.---John Harvey
About the Author/作者介绍： Brian Thompson was born in London in 1935 and now lives in Oxford. He has written two award-winning volumes of memoir: Keeping Mum (2006), winner of the Costa Prize for Biography and the PEN/Ackerley Prize, and Clever Girl (2007), longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The first Bella Wallis mystery, The Widow’s Secret, was published in 2008.
Brian Thompson，1935年生於倫敦，現居牛津。他曾經寫過兩本獲獎的傳記，《Keeping Mum》(2006)獲得柯斯達傳記文學獎（Costa Prize for Biography）與PEN/Ackerley傳記獎。2007年出版的《Clever Girl》入圍薩繆爾‧傑克遜獎（Samuel Johnson Prize）。第一本貝菈‧華莉斯系列《寡婦的秘密》於2008年出版。作者作品繁體版權皆available。
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