When Mrs Bradleys grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional of detectives, for the books now deceased owner was once suspected of the murders of both her aunt and...
Comrie and Hera are planning to marry but, before taking the risk of setting up as legal life-partners, they decide on an unusual test of compatibility: they embark on a long, sometimes arduous pilgrimage along part of Scotland's West Highland...
Mrs Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, psychologist and detective, has become the warden of a house in a girls' training college in order to investigate the disappearance of a previous warden. Only her intelligence and perspicacity can coax the...
Jonathan and Deborah Bradley come to the rescue when relations wish to enjoy a cruise: not only does the couple agree to tend to a handsome country house, they also temporarily inherit two young charges, Rosamund and Edmund. Knowing that they can...
Here Lies Gloria Mundy. When Anthony Wotton and his wife, Celia, hold a weekend gathering of friends and relatives at their home in the Cotswolds, they little suspect that Gloria Mundy will show up. Unheralded and uninvited, Gloria Mundy is a...
Margaret and Kenneth Clifton pass their childhood summers with their two sets of aunts and uncles in the sleepy village of Hill. They spend their days playing in the town's sheepwash, avoiding Sunday school, investigating the old hermit's shack,...
Depending on how one looks at it, Mr. Theddeus E. Lawrence manages to incur either terrible misfortune or celebrated windfalls. Relatives and family members have a habit of dying, but Lawrence is often compensated for his loss. His father (who...
On a rainy, miserable night, down-on-his-luck author George Mandsell ducks into a public telephone box, intending to call his publisher and ask for an advance. As soon as he is inside, the phone begins to ring. Answering it, he discovers that the...
Laura's trip to her native Scotland--accompanying Dame Beatrice for a conference, the secretary finds the venture more pleasure than business--begins ominously when she witnesses at Inverness a man thrown into the path of a speeding lorry. A...
The humble town of Brayne is about to be upgraded to a borough. For energetic councilor Julian Perse such elevated status requires proper celebration, namely the organization of a multi-part historical pageant to be held throughout the village. A...