A Nell Bray mystery set in Edwardian London, where the staging of George Bernard Shaw's new comedy, a feminist reworking of "Cinderella", results in murder. The fearless lady sleuth follows a trail which takes in a raunchy East End club, a primitive flying machine and a beautiful Queen Anne house.
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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 husband to star in Shaw's reworking of the Cinderella story, which bears some obvious parallels to Bella's sorry marriage. The playwright believes that Penwardine, known as Guggles, may retaliate. After a censor from the Lord Chamberlain's office is found murdered backstage, dressed in Bella's costume, the leading lady returns to her husband's home without a word of explanation. Nell struggles to determine whether she's been kidnapped and why the censor was killed. Linscott infuses the lively tale with details and mores of the century's first decade, including an exciting flight in a Wright model aeroplane. Nell is a delight.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
YA-Suffragette and amateur sleuth Nell Bray's latest case begins in 1909 when George Bernard Shaw seeks protection for his leading lady, whose life has been threatened by her jealous husband. Nell is soon investigating the death of the censor from the Lord Chamberlain's office who had come to review Shaw's searing play about English marital laws. Was the Examiner of Plays killed by mistake? Perhaps the star, Bella Penwardine, whose life resembles the plot of Shaw's play, was the intended victim. In seeking to find the murderer, Nell must deal with a missing leading lady, snubs from her high-society husband's friends and family, plus sabotage and riots used to discredit Shaw and his players. The plucky heroine tracks down the missing thespian after an aeroplane ride in a Wright model with Bella's leading man and shining knight, who claims that Nell is only the third British woman to go up in such a craft. After a crash landing occurs, the mystery moves to a rapid conclusion as Nell unmasks the unlikely murderer. Once more Linscott engages readers' attention with a clever mix of mystery and early 20th-century history and characters.
Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School Library, Upper Marlboro, MD
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School Library, Upper Marlboro, MD
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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