Hazel Holt

A small university in Pennsylvania has engaged Mrs. Sheila Malory to teach a course on Nineteenth-Century Women writers, and so, with some reluctance, the widow leaves her home in the charming seaside village of Taviscombe to experience academic life in America. The semester will prove even more challenging than she thought, for no sooner does she arrive than a colleague is found with a bullet in his head. The victim is particularly nasty, a man many...

While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother Francis to sell their jointly owned family home in the seaside village of Taviscombe, the bank will repossess his cottage. Francis, Dean of the Culminster Cathedral, does not believe that charity begins...

Annie Roberts is the local busybody for the village of Mere Barton. And when Annie dies from mushroom poisoning, Mrs. Malory finds the circumstances too suspicious not to investigate.

Filling in for a friend at a charity shop in the quiet English town of Taviscombe, Sheila Malory is happy for the change of scene and a chance to deal with interesting books, meet new people, and, above all, work for a good cause! Still, not everything in the shop is appealing. The ill-tempered, officious store supervisor, Desmond Barlow, runs the shop as a tyrant. That is, until he's found stabbed to death, and Mrs. Malory puts her impeccable sleuthing...

John Morrison is a brilliant doctor, but his bedside manner has made many enemies in Taviscombe among both his peers and patients. So no one is surprised when he is stabbed to death-but Mrs. Malory is surprised when she uncovers numerous suspects for both motive and murderer.

The sleuthing widow, Sheila Malory, leaves her cozy English village for a university in Pennsylvania to teach a course in literature. While there she investigates a murder, in the process providing a British perspective on American life. By the author of Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murders.