While on her last assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson meets and is strongly attracted to an Irish country lawyer, Gerald O'Brien, who is travelling with friends of hers. O'Brien has asked Julia to marry him but she delays her decision until he has met her five-year-old son Philip, who is somewhat hard to handle. 
Boy and man take to each other, and it becomes clear that Gerald will be an ideal stepfather. On his part, Gerald insists that she come to Ireland to see his modest home and meet his friends and neighbors before she makes up her mind, for his world is far different from the glamorous cosmopolitan one she is accustomed to. 
Julia's quiet vacation is interrupted when she stumbles upon a plot by an unknown land speculator who, with the unwitting aid of an attractive American woman and an Irish poet, is surreptitiously buying a strip of land along the coast for the purpose of building a huge resort hotel and casino. The intrepid Julia is drawn in as a participant when she joins Gerald in his investigation of this devious scheme, which will destroy the wild beauty of the coast and disrupt the peace of the community. 
Ann Bridge (1889-1974), or Lady Mary Dolling (Sanders) O'Malley was born in Hertfordshire. 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 novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire. Bridge went on to write novels around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centered on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well writing travel books and family memoirs. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research.

Julia in Ireland,

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

BRIDGE, ANN

Mystery

McGraw=Hill

This was Ann Bridge's second novel, published in 1934. It combines romance and adventure and is set in the days when expatriates and diplomats enjoyed privileged and cosseted lives in the Far East.

The Ginger Griffin

Lethbridge, H.J.

Oxford University Press

An autobiographical account of the author's ESP experiences. with dustjacket clean copy

Moments of knowing: some personal experiences beyond normal knowledge,

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

In Julia Probyn's fifth adventure, first published in 1965, Julia moves to a remote French mountain village near the Spanish border, while her husband, a British Intelligence agent, is on a secret assignment.  As always, adventures comes Julia's way.  A sabotage plot is underway, with France's gas reserved being targeted.  Julia is six months pregnant as the plot unfolds, and her early labor creates additional suspense.     The book is richest in its secondary characters: a Scottish lord & his family living in a nearby town with their optimist and pessimist twins, Bonnecourt, a mountain guide & hunter and the main suspect in the sabotage, and Julia's cousin, Colin Munro.  Fans of Julia Probyn's will delight in the thrilling intrigue of Julia's adventure in the Pyrenees.

Emergency in the Pyrenees

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The Tightening String: A Novel

Contemporary

The Selective Traveller in Portugal

Travel

LOWNDES, Susan

Europe

Facts and fictions,

The Dark Moment

Condition-used good. Hardcover. Discarded library book. Leader(inside cover) pages have some writing on it. No dust cover.

The Malady in Madeira

Singing Waters

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