Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a gue
This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a t
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is tur
Alfred "Dilly" Knox was Britain’s leading wartime codebreaker, an eccentric genius who did more than anyone to decipher the Nazi Enigma codes, thereby shortening the war. Mavis Batey worked at Bletchl
The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known as Dilly’, was one of the leading figures in the British code-breaking successes of the two world wars. Mavis Batey, who worked for Knox at
