Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

Alexander McCall Smith meets Sarah Waters in an effervescent new series with a glamorous, witty heroine--think 1870s "Murder She Wrote" 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"--but 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. One of her confidantes is the dashing Philip...