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The Division Bell Mystery

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First edition (publ. Harrap)

The Division Bell Mystery is a 1932 political murder mystery by Labour Party MP Ellen Wilkinson.[1][2] A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. A young parliamentary private secretary turns amateur sleuth becoming smitten by the dead man's gorgeous but enigmatic granddaughter.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lonsdale, Sarah, The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present. London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 ISBN 147422055X (pg. 90-92).
  2. ^ Layborn, Keith. "Wilkinson, Ellen". In Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics London, Routledge, 2002. ISBN 9781134588749 (pg. 221).
  3. ^ Fielding, S. (2011), ‘Fiction and British Politics: Towards an Imagined Political Capital’, Parliamentary Affairs, 64/2: 6