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  • The Lighthearted Quest

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 1

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 1 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    When Julia Probyn's cousin and childhood friend Colin cuts off all contact with his family, it is down to Julia to find him. Setting sail for Morocco – the last place he was seen – and using her occupation as a journalist as a cover, Julia is ready for a fairly lighthearted quest. But Julia wasn't counting on the level of secrecy surrounding her cousin's disappearance.With the British consulate ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Tightening String

    by Ann Bridge ...
    This novel records the lives of a group of English diplomats in Budapest from the Spring of 1940, up to the entry of the Germans which compels them to leave in Easter 1941. Crossing the Russian frontier en route for Moscow and the U.S.A., an episode at once dramatic and distinctly comic, sees the characters' main pre-occupation as less about their own predicament than the desperate and sustained ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dark Moment

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Feride and Nilüfer lead a elegant and comfortable life in Turkish aristocratic society until their lives are turned upside down by Atatürk's fight for independence after WWI. Finding strength and courage they didn't know they had, the women become pioneers for the freedom of their countrywomen.When their husbands leave to join general Atatürk in the fight for a new Turkey, Feride and Nilüfer dress ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Place to Stand

    by Ann Bridge ...
    First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair of underground intrigue, through the machinations of her journalist fiancé. During the course of her activities she falls in love with a Polish ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Malady in Madeira

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 7

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 7 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    The last thing recently widowed Julia Probyn expects to find on the lush and charming island of Madeira is a clue to her husband's mysterious death, for Colonel Jamieson perished somewhere in the wilds of Central Asia while on a top-secret mission for British Intelligence. No sooner does Julia arrive at Madeira with her infant son and his devoted Nanny, however, than a series of strange, sinister, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Portuguese Escape

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 2

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 2 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    Julia Probyn, journalist and amateur sleuth, must acquaint herself with the world of counterespionage. Hetta, a young Hungarian Countess, just released from behind the Iron Curtain, is drawn into a communist plot. Together the two young women will need all of their strength to unravel the schemes and machinations closing in from all sides.With Ann Bridge's talent for evoking place and mixing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Numbered Account

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 3

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 3 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    Julia Probyn, like most people, knew very little about anonymous numbered accounts in Swiss Banks. Until her cousin, Colin Munro, asked her to look into the matter of one containing a fortune for his fiancée Aglaia Armitage, left to her by her Greek grandfather. Julia – journalist, amateur sleuth, occasional spy – must learn fast.When the account is compromised, and documents of vital interest to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Episode At Toledo

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 6

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 6 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    In the beautiful countryside of Portugal, erstwhile British secret agent Julia Probyn is to attend a royal wedding. But her former acquaintance, Countess Hetta Páloczy, the young Hungarian refugee, unwittingly gets them both tangled in Cold War intrigue. 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Emergency in the Pyrenees

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 5

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 5 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    After the perilous circumstances in which the newly married Julia and Philip met, it is no wonder that the Colonel wants his pregnant wife safe and away from too much excitement. Unfortunately, the remote French mountain village he chooses is not only impractical, isolated, and far from medical assistance, but is unfortunately also in the path of smugglers and saboteurs.Collin Munro – Julia's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Julia in Ireland

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 8

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 8 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    While on an assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson, journalist, amateur sleuth and occasional spy, loses her heart to Gerald O'Brien, a kind and unassuming lawyer. Together with her five-year-old son, Julia travels to Gerald's family home in Ireland to see if the country life could be for her.Julia's quiet vacation is interrupted when she stumbles upon a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ginger Griffin

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another.The Ginger Griffin combines romance and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Moments of Knowing

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Ann Bridge, besides being a famous author, was also, in her own words, “a person who frequently has, when awake, inexplicable 'knowings' of events taking place at a distance: and, in dreams, am informed, sometimes uncomfortably, of facts of which I can have no knowledge by normal means”.In this remarkable book, part memoir, part a personal statement, she wrote of a number of such moments taken ... Read more

    $7.99 USD