Publisher's Synopsis
London, 1875. Bella Wallis punishes evil-doers by exposing them as thinly disguised characters in the books she writes under her male pseudonym, Henry Ellis Margam. Armed with her pen, she surrounds herself with useful men: the dashing Philip Westland, Captain Quigley and his shady assistant, Murch. Westland comes to Bella with a problem: his best friend Kennett is smitten by the heiress Miss Mary Skillane. But Mary has been promised to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure seeker. Mary is due to inherit the Skillane pearls, but the pearls were ill-gotten it seems. As Bella and her band uncover more of the strange business, Bella is forced to evade a brutal threat to her life...
