The Chess Player

Lucy Hall, a dancer at the Black Cat Theatre in 1930s London, gets herself into all kinds of adventures.   This time, it's all about chess: on stage, a tableau of exotic chess pieces and, on the streets, the murder of a chess player's wife as Lucy is drawn into bizarre and dangerous encounters.  The Chess Player is a delicious, sexy and thrilling novella, an evocation of a lost world, with mature themes and tantalising scenes.  First in the Secrets of a Dancing Girl series.