BENNETT MARGOT

(P/B) THE WIDOW OF BATH
'There are a dozen clever deceptions in the book, twice as many as most writers would have given us.' - Julian Symons in Bloody MurderHugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England's south coast - and then in walked his old flame Lucy and her new husband and ex-Judge, Gregory Bath. Entreated by Lucy to join her party for an evening back at the Bath residence, Hugh is powerless to resist, but when the night ends with the judge's inexplicable murder he is pitched back int...
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(P/B) THE MAN WHO DIDN'T FLY
A new addition to the British Library Crime Classics Series, Gold Dagger award-winning Margot Bennett was a Scottish crime author and screenwriter. The story was short-listed for the first CWA Gold Dagger award in 1955 and takes place in multiple parts of the U.K. (Ireland, Wales, London). It includes the extremely rare short story from Bennett, 'No Bath for the Browns'. Four men had arranged to fly to Dublin. When their aeroplane descended as a fireball into the Irish Sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the passe...
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