The Missing Heiress

Lady Cassandra (Cassie) de Montford was a feisty 20 year old beauty who was due to inherit a lot of money - an awful lot of money - on the day of her 21st birthday.   But she was missing - last seen leaving the The Blue Feather Nightclub in Soho with a very shady character Nick Papadopoulis.  He was well known to Scotland Yard but they couldn't get anything on him, and he knew it.  That was the way Nick liked it.

Cassie's uncle Brabazon de Montford hires Brendan Villeneuve, P.I. to find her.    But was Brabazon all he was cracked up to be? After all, his son Freddie was next in line to inherit.    Or had Lady Cassie gone missing on her own accord - fed up of her bickering relatives.


What starts out as a straightforward missing persons case, becomes a web of family secrets. Secrets the de Montford family don't want to share.


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Penelope Poole - Crime Writer Extraordinaire!


Penelope is known throughout the world as the High Priestess of Crime Writing.   Her 23 detective novels have been translated into every major language and her sales are calculated in tens of millions.


She began writing at the end of the Second World War when she created Brendan Villeneuve, the petulant Irish-French detective living in London whose womanising and whiskey drinking escapades are the stuff of legend.  His intuitive skills coupled with an innate understanding of human psychology have seen him solve some of the most intriguing and daring crimes in contemporary times.   The arrogance and dismissive attitude he shows towards the established crime fighting unit of Scotland Yard and Interpol makes him unpopular with the local constabulary - especially when he repeatedly collars the perpetrators before them.


A Tour de Force for Brendan......New York Daily Times


Nail biting stuff from the High Priestess ..... Dublin Bugle


Penelope Poole has done it again, we love you Penelope .........Paris Matches










Penelope Poole was born in South Africa and was educated in Oxford.  She met her husband there - a gentleman farmer called Myles from Co. Cavan who was studying marine biology.  They now live on the family farm in Cavan where Penelope has cultivated a small organic cottage garden.  As well as her crime series, she has also written a biography of Lewis Hine, photographer and sociologist.


Other books by Penelope Poole


'Murder on the Dancefloor'


'Sinister Events at Halloween'


'Why didn't they ask Alice!'










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