Gillian Linscott, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30824-7
Set during the summer of 1900, the superb 10th Nell Bray mystery (after 2001's The Perfect Daughter) turns Victorian convention on its head with delightful results. Nell and two of her girlfriends, Imogen and Midge, all of whom are free-thinking
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Gillian Linscott, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-312-33148-1
British author Linscott's solid historical series (Dead Man Riding
, etc.) seldom portrays English suffragette Nell Bray breaking the law, even when the law is wrong, but at the start of this nifty tale of love, deceit and socialism, Nell finds...
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Gillian Linscott, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20765-6
In 1918, 17 women stood as candidates in the first general election in England in which women could vote. In her eighth Nell Bray adventure (following 1998's Dance On Blood), Linscott adds her fictional heroine to their number. The months following...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-02996-8
Researching Anglican religious poetry in his scramble up the academic ladder, young Oxford scholar Colin Counsel accidentally comes across a sado-masochistic novel printed in Paris in the 1950s, The Martyrdom of Valentine . Strangely drawn to the...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-01531-2
Seen before in Murder Makes Tracks and A Healthy Body, ex-cop ""Birdie'' Linnet is now on an all-but-deserted volanic island in the Caribbean, leading a week's adventure and survival tour. Birdie's charges include his own teenage daughter, the...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-06464-8
One sunny day in turn-of-the-century Biarritz, the celebrated courtesan Topaz Brown writes her will, bequeathing a certain sum to her maid and 50,000 to the Women's Social and Political Union, a British suffrage group. The next day she is dead,...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-312-05132-7
Beginning at the London funeral of African explorer David Livingstone, this Victorian whodunit looks toward the rival expeditions of Philip Bright and Hardy Stretton, explorers formerly allied but now eager to establish competing theories about the...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-312-08806-4
Turn - of - the - century activist Nell Bray (introduced in Sister Beneath the Sheet ) turns from the suffrage movement to campaign against WW I in this exhilarating mystery. Her friend Jenny Chesney asks her to come to the small auxiliary hospital...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-09812-4
Formidable early feminist Nell Bray returns in her third adventure, after Hanging on a Wire , to help George Bernard Shaw in his efforts to protect his latest star. Isabella Flanagan, an American heiress married to Lord Penwardine, has left her...
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Gillian Linscott, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-11811-2
It's 1910, and nosy, energetic Nell Bray, British suffragette and sometime sleuth seen last in Stage Fright, is vacationing at the resort town of Chamonix in the French Alps. Nell is climbing a mountain slope when the body of Arthur Mordiford is...
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Gillian Linscott, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-27296-8
In this ninth, engaging Nell Bray mystery (after 1999's Absent Friends), set in England on the eve of WWI, suffragettes clash with police, prison inmates are hunger-striking and immigrants from various suspect countries endure harassment, while a...
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