The Norths Meet Murder

Author	Patricia Wentworth
ISBN	0446301353

If the Miss Silver series of books were ever made into a TV series, and if I were the casting director, I would beg and plead to have Linda Hunt [Henrietta (Hetty) Lange on NCIS: Los Angeles] play the part of Miss Silver. As soon as I first ‘met’ Miss Silver in the book, Hetty Lange popped into my head. Small...

Author	Mavis Doriel Hay
ISBN	0712357262

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils in the world: unladylike behavior among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon,...

Author	John Rowland
ISBN	1464205795

When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are...

Author	Raymond Postgate
ISBN	0897331982

This was a delightful read. It's hard not to use the word "delightful" when describing this old fashioned British courtroom drama. Verdict of Twelve is a republication of a book originally released in 1940. It starts with the backstory of the twelve jurors selected for a murder trial, describes the...

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E.C.R. Lorac

The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural...