More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair’s delightful second novel, A Royal Affair.In London 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary to handle t...

In Allison Montclair's The Lady from Burma, murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-World War II London…In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture - The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous - and never discussed - past in British i...

Quand les affaires du Bureau deviennent des affaires de famille !Londres, août 1946. Le Bureau du Mariage idéal est en pleine expansion, les affaires tournent à plein pour Iris Sparks et Gwendolyn Bainbridge. Jusqu'à ce que le beau-père de cette dernière ne revienne plus tôt que prévu d'un voyage d'affaires en Afrique et décide d'envoyer le jeune fils de Gwen dans un pensionnat loin de la capitale.Puis, les catastrophes s'enchaînent : un client de l'agence s'...

Une nouvelle enquête du Bureau du Mariage idéal, dans les coulisses de Buckingham PalaceLondres en 1946. Le Bureau du Mariage idéal commence tout juste à prendre son envol et les propriétaires, Mlle Iris Sparks et Mme Gwendolyn Bainbridge, ont besoin d'un bureau plus grand et d'une secrétaire pour faire face à la demande croissante. Malheureusement, l'argent manque. Alors, quand la cousine de Gwen arrive avec une offre intéressante, elles sont tout ouïes.La ...

From debut author Allison Montclair comes an engrossing historical mystery novel set in post-war London, The Right Sort of Man.In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair—The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and impulsive, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence a...

In Allison Montclair's A Rogue's Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear.In London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge—the w...

In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder.In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture—The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous—and never discussed—past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a genteel war widow with a young son entangled in a c...

La naissance de 2 enquêtrices hors pair dans le Londres de l'après-GuerreAlors que Londres se remet lentement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, deux femmes que tout oppose s'associent pour monter une société au cœur du quartier de Mayfair, le Bureau du Mariage Idéal. L'impulsive Miss Iris Sparks à l'esprit vif et Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge, veuve pragmatique et mère d'un jeune garçon, sont résolues à s'imposer dans un monde qui change à toute vitesse.Mais les débuts prometteurs d...

Sparks and Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau return in this short story from Allison Montclair as their expansion into a new office - and acquisition of a new desk - results in unexplainable phenomena that can only mean that their new digs are haunted!In London, 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Agency is off to a good start and their early success means that Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge can now afford to expand into the long-empty office a...

Allison Montclair returns with the fourth Sparks & Bainbridge mystery, The Unkept Woman: London, 1946, Miss Iris Sparks--currently co-proprietor of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau--has to deal with aspects of her past exploits during the recent war that have come back around to haunt her.The Right Sort Marriage Bureau was founded in 1946 by two disparate individuals - Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge (whose husband was killed in the recent World War) and Miss Iris...

London, 1947. Spirited Miss Iris Sparks and ever-practical Mrs Gwendolyn Bainbridge are called to action when Gwen's beau Salvatore 'Sally' Danielli is accused of murder! Sally has taken a job at the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace, but when the beautiful Miss JeanneMarie Duplessis - one of the Parisian performers over for a new variety show - is found dead in the old theatre, a number of inconvenient coincidences make him Suspect No. 1. Just days earlier, Miss Duplessis had arrived at The...

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as being dragged into a spy mission isn't going to stop them!Sparks fly when an old friend comes to town . . .London, 1947. After recent events have left the normally steadfast Iris Sparks thoroughly shaken, she's looking forward to s...