(NO MORE THAT 4 BOOKS PER ORDER ALLOWED SO THAT PARCEL WEIGHS 2 kg. OR LESS) - Book and wrapper still in great condition - Small neat previous ownership inside. >>> When lovely Gabrielle Dermot left the shelter of the English vicarage where she had been brought up, to go to the Italian Riviera, three people awaited her with very different feelings. Her mother, who had left England years before with Count Gaspare Voltano, dreaded her daughter's arrival at the Count's villa, which to her had become a hated prison; the Count himself was eager, for he knew of Gabrielle's young beauty, and knew too that she could be a valuable assistant; Pierre Ronceau of the French Secret Service waited for Gabrielle's admission to the inaccessible villa above the Point des Sirenes to round out one of the most hazardous cases of his career. These, and Pierre's English half-brother Peter, who was unwittingly drawn into an international plot because he loved Gabrielle as soon as he saw her, play varied roles in the sinister course of events which threatened to destroy Gabrielle before she escaped to happiness. Ethel M. Dell has woven a brilliant tapestry of romance and intrigue in this new novel, and the remarkable suspense and dramatic interest of the story will win new praise from her countless readers. >>> I loved this writer's style, I found it quite light. I loved her use of language, it felt authentic but also very readable in our modern times - it didn't feel like it was trying to teach me about the language patterns of the time (18th century, god save us if it had been too true to reality, it would have been unreadable) whilst also giving us a plausible flavour of how people actually spoke and addressed one another at that time.- I found the pace excellent. It neither dragged nor raced. I kept up, didn't get lost, but equally wasn't bored and wondering when on earth things might move along.
