The Player's Curse

A Bella Wallis Mystery

Brian Thompson

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Vintage
15 October 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Bella Wallis Victorian Mysteries

Kidnap, cricket and cross-dressing- all in a day's work for Bella Wallis in her third thrilling Victorian mystery.

Bella Wallis - respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels - is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland. But Westland's shadowy job, working for the British government, continually takes him abroad and away from the charismatic, impatient Bella. And then there is the matter of Westland's sister's incarceration in a French nunnery, a mystery about which he refuses to say a word.

Bella is convinced that their future together can only be resolved by getting to the bottom of his secret. The resulting quest will take her from the Oval, and a vicious curse laid on champion batsman W.

G Grace, to the desolate moors of Yorkshire, on the trail of some decidedly dangerous women and a surprisingly chatty hermit...

By: Brian Thompson
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 179g
ISBN: 9780099539476
ISBN 10: 0099539470
Series: Bella Wallis Victorian Mysteries
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Player's Curse is the third Bella Wallis mystery, following The Widow's Secret, and The Captain's Table. A fourth and final volume is planned.

Reviews for The Player's Curse: A Bella Wallis Mystery

""A glorious heroine"" -- John Harvey ""Bella Wallis is a joy to follow"" The Historical Novels Review ""Thompson specialises in sharp, elliptical dialogue and brisk little glances into the murk that rises beyond Bella's window"" Guardian ""Brian Thompson writes well and there is a rich vein of humour"" Daily Mail