Depraved Angel... Plus-2

Three-Books of retro female-led misadventures - at least for the men involved in them! 

We open with "Depraved Angel" and a romance of intrigue, crime and skewed passion set in the 1920's by way of a homage to the late-and-great Edgar Wallace from the pen of his friend and admirer, Viscount Evelyn Bayliss. Read on, as Viscount Evelyn relates his tale of murder, an arranged marriage, a lovestruck lawyer, and a femme fatale with dark and unfulfilled desires. Put this together with a cast of well-to-do men and women and a notorious Moroccan bandit and chieftain with a passion for the European female; and what do you have?

Following this is Giles Rokeby's "Arabian Nightmare", his retro tale of early feminism embracing an entirely different mindset and lifestyle on a visit to the deserts of Arabia, as an English wife finds a freedom in the desert she would have once found inconceivable… Emancipation made at the expense of the husband and her young male-friend accompanying her on the trip!

Concluding the triad is "The Servant Revisited", Sandrine Bessancort's psychologically decadent – if all too believable – tale of how a one-time golden-boy from a poverty-stricken Russian village attempts to find his fortune in Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth-century… Only to find failure and hunger before finding his true fate in the service of a woman form his former village… A young woman and widow with a an opening for a particularly servile and attentive retainer!

Retro and believable female-led fiction in the style of the masters of the first half of the twentieth-century.