THE WIDOW’S SECRET: A BELLA WALLIS MYSTERY

Book ID/图书代码： 11320008B29796

English Summary/英文概要： Bella Wallis is a respectable widow with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the seedy backstreets of Victorian London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam.

So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl’s untimely death. But the owner of the cigar case is a dangerous - and rich - man who has already destroyed the lives of others who have crossed him. Will Bella see justice done, or will she meet the same fate as so many of her characters...?

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

故事發生在維多利亞時代的倫敦，貝菈‧華莉斯，受人尊敬的寡婦背後竟有個秘密身份—專門揭發上流社會壞蛋的小說作家，其筆名為亨利‧艾力斯。
一個被謀殺的妓女身旁發現了一個裝飾精美的雪茄盒，貝菈與她的朋友們決定追查真相且將此事件寫成小說。然而雪茄盒的擁有者，有權有勢又危險，貝菈是否能成功揭發事情真相～

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）

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Brian Thompson can write... [he] is in a different league.’---Tom Paybe, Daily Telegraph

‘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’---Financial Times

‘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

Entertaining, indeed dazzling. Dickensian in its humour, its vivid evocation of a criminal underworld, and the poverty and filth of the Victorian city---TLS

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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