Emma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little town of Martinmas and a nursing home transformed into a girls' school. Set in 1940, he sc...

This English author's first book, first published in England in 1937, introduces Inspector Dan Pardoe who looks into the death of an old lady in an English village. When this book first appeared, The Times of London said 'Miss Dorothy...