The Episode At Toledo: A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 6 - Ann Bridge

Bridge's novels concern her experiences of the British Foreign Office community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research. Bridge went on to write novels around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire. In the beautiful countryside of Portugal, erstwhile British secret agent Julia Probyn is to attend a royal wedding. After Hetta accidentally uncovers a Communist plot to assassinate an American admiral in Spain, she is a marked woman yet again and must flee to Portugal. But her former acquaintance, Countess Hetta P loczy, the young Hungarian refugee, unwittingly gets them both tangled in Cold War intrigue. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centered on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well writing travel books and family memoirs. Unluckily for the assassins, these women are no strangers to danger.In The Episode at Toledo, book six in the series, Julia is joined by Hetta and Luzia, uniting all our heroines from The Julia Probyn Mysteries.About the Author:Ann Bridge (1889-1974), or Lady Mary Dolling (Sanders) O'Malley was born in Hertfordshire. But even in the tranquil beauty of Gralheira, peril lurks.

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The Episode At Toledo: A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 6 - Ann Bridge