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  • 2025
  • First world edition.

An excellent thing in a woman

Allison Montclair

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"London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge are called to action when Gwen's beau Salvatore 'Sally' Danielli is accused of murder! Sally has taken a job at the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace, but when the beautiful Miss JeanneMarie Duplessis - one of the Parisian performers over for a new variety show - is found dead in the old theatre, a number of inconvenient coincidences make him Suspect No:1. Just days earlier, Miss Duplessis had arrived at The Right Sort, desperately looking for a husband - any husband - to avoid having to return to Paris. As the plot thickens, Iris is pulled back into the clandestine circles she moved in during the war and it soon becomes apparent that to clear Sally's name, she and Gwen would need to go on the hunt for a killer once more!"--

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Title Statement An excellent thing in a woman / Allison Montclair.
Series Sparks & Bainbridge mystery ;7
Author Montclair, Allison
Publication Edinburgh: Severn House,2025.
Edition First world edition.
Extent of Item 210 pages ;
ISBN 9781448312375 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07933303
Summary "London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge are called to action when Gwen's beau Salvatore 'Sally' Danielli is accused of murder! Sally has taken a job at the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace, but when the beautiful Miss JeanneMarie Duplessis - one of the Parisian performers over for a new variety show - is found dead in the old theatre, a number of inconvenient coincidences make him Suspect No:1. Just days earlier, Miss Duplessis had arrived at The Right Sort, desperately looking for a husband - any husband - to avoid having to return to Paris. As the plot thickens, Iris is pulled back into the clandestine circles she moved in during the war and it soon becomes apparent that to clear Sally's name, she and Gwen would need to go on the hunt for a killer once more!"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Actresses--Fiction--Crimes against
Murder--Fiction--Investigation
Nineteen forties--Fiction
By Location Great Britain--Fiction--History--George VI, 1936-1952
London (England)--Fiction--History--20th century
By Genre Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
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