Maureen Marshall

Tinka Jones needs to escape her London life and decides to visit Amista, a friend who lives in an isolated house in the Welsh hills. Stuck in a desolate house on the rain-swept hills she encounters unsettling and bizarre visitations as she sets out to unearth the mystery that surrounds Amista and the house - with chilling consequences.

"A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm." So runs the advertisement in that day's local paper. Miss Blacklock, the owner of Little Paddocks, is not unduly surprised when, towards the appointed hour, several of her neighbours find themselves drawn to call upon her ...

From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this selection of stories shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.

From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this selection of stories shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.

Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet Vane, the detective story writer, are settling into their new life together in London. It is 1936, and London is a social whirl for the fashionable and wealthy. When murder strikes, Harriet becomes drawn into a case which casts an unexpected light on her own life with Peter.