The Captain's Table by Brian Thompson | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: The Captain's Table Author: Brian Thompson Narrator: Margaret Holt Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 12-23-10 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Summary: London, 1875. At Lady Cornfords famous soiree (sugared almonds and tittle-tattle), everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margams latest hit, The Widows Secret. Only a few people know that one of Lady Cs guests, the enigmatic Bella Wallis, is in fact the best-selling 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 Marys 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.... Contact: [email protected]