Margaret Yorke is one of the most popular British authors in the mystery genre. She was born Margaret Beda Larminie but adopted the pseudonym Margaret Yorke so as not to be confused with a family member that was also an author. Yorke was born in Surrey in the UK though she lived most of her childhood in Dublin Ireland before going back home in 1937. When World War II broke out she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service where she worked as a driver. After the war she made history by working in the Christ Church library in Oxford, the first woman to ever do so. Margaret Yorke died in 2012 aged 88 having made a name for herself as a successful crime fiction author. She wrote her novels in the claustrophobic English tradition made popular by legends such as Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie.
Margaret Yorke was born Margaret Beda Larminie in Compton Surrey but lived in Dublin where her father worked at Guinness. She came back to England aged thirteen and went to Prior’s Field girls school. After working with the Christ Church Oxford library and as a driver with the Royal Navy during World War II, she married Basil Nicholson in 1945. She never enjoyed marriage and she would soon move to Long Crendon a picturesque village of Buckinghamshire where she
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It opens to a mysterious death, a list of suspects and an amateur sleuth driven to find who is responsible. The lead protagonist is one Dr. Patrick Grant who doubles up as Oxford college dean He is in town to visit his sister who has been lonely since her husband left town to go on a business trip. He believes there is something strange about the Ludlow family who he has had the opportunity to interact with in the past. But just as he is getting friendly with the family, there is a murder. Never one to pass up an opportunity for homicide investigation, he is determined to solve the mystery and serve justice to the