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Penny Parker is the heroine of a series of 17 books written by Mildred Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny is a high school student turned sleuth who also sporadically works as a reporter for her father's newspaper, The Riverview Star.
Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, [1] MBE (20 June 1930 – 21 December 2024), known professionally as Catherine Aird, was an English novelist.She was the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories.
Davis, an adopted child, was born in Chicago in 1916 [1] and raised in Illinois by Margaret (née Greer) and Alfred J. Salisbury. [2] She worked in Chicago in advertising as a research librarian and as an editor of The Merchandiser, prior to taking up fiction writing. [3]
An English Murder is a crime novel by Cyril Hare. [1] Published in 1951, it combines traits of classical Golden Age murder mystery – a group of guests in a snowed in country house – with the realities of post-war Britain.
Her early books include Murder in St John’s Wood and Murder in Chelsea, while two other books set in London, Bats in the Belfry and the war-time mystery Murder by Matchlight. Like Rosanne Manaton, a character in her Checkmate to Murder , she was artistic and had an interest in ski-ing; the winter sport plays a central part in her Carol Carnac ...
In most of Miss Silver's cases there is a young couple whose romance seems ill fated because of the murder to be solved, but in Miss Silver's competent hands the case is solved, the young couple are exonerated, and all is right in this very traditional world." [7] Wentworth also wrote 34 books outside that series.
The Crown Crime Companion : The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Edited with Mickey Friedman. (1995) Murder For Love (1996) The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time (1998) Murder For Revenge (1998) Murder and Obsession (1999) Best American Mystery Stories of the Century Edited with Tony Hillerman. (2000) Murderer's Row (2001) Murder On the Ropes ...
The chapters contained in the English volumes are also different from the Japanese counterparts. While many of the original Japanese volumes contain two mysteries in one book, the chapters in each English volume form a single mystery story and different mysteries are published in separate volumes.