Miss Seeton Rocks the Cradle
Published on 23. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78842-084-6 (ISBN)
Description
From her discovery of an aristocratic infant abandoned in a village telephone booth, to dark doings amongst Scottish banks and braes, it's a rollercoaster ride for Miss Seeton in this adventure with a tartan touch.
Grateful parents Lord and Lady Glenclachan sweep Miss S. northward to MacSporran Castle, their ancestral home, where, as her admiring reporter pal Amelita Forby (scenting a story and hot on her trail) puts it, 'Battling Brolly Finds Corpse Near Crag' - not to mention tangling with Jacobites and searching for a fabled gold mine.
As usual, the retired art teacher's inner eye sees to the essence of this heady Highland brew.
Serene amidst every kind of skulduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!
Grateful parents Lord and Lady Glenclachan sweep Miss S. northward to MacSporran Castle, their ancestral home, where, as her admiring reporter pal Amelita Forby (scenting a story and hot on her trail) puts it, 'Battling Brolly Finds Corpse Near Crag' - not to mention tangling with Jacobites and searching for a fabled gold mine.
As usual, the retired art teacher's inner eye sees to the essence of this heady Highland brew.
Serene amidst every kind of skulduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!
Reviews / Votes
PRAISE FOR MISS SEETON:'Miss Seeton gets into wild drama with fine touches of farce . . . This is a lovely mixture of the funny and the exciting' San Francisco Chronicle 'A most beguiling protagonist!' New York Times 'This is not so much black comedy as black-currant comedy . . . You can't stop reading. Or laughing' The Sun 'She's a joy!' Cleveland Plain Dealer 'Not since Agatha Christie's Miss Marple has there been a more lovable female dabbler in crime and suspense' Amarillo News
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Duckworth Books
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
309 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78842-084-6 (9781788420846)
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Hamilton Crane is the pseudonym used by Sarah J. Mason when writing for the Miss Seeton series. She has also written detective fiction under her own name, but should not be confused with the Sarah Mason (no middle initial) who writes a rather different kind of book.
After half a century in Hertfordshire (if we ignore four years in Scotland and one in New Zealand), Sarah J. Mason now lives in Somerset-within easy reach of the beautiful city of Wells, and just far enough from Glastonbury to avoid the annual traffic jams.
After half a century in Hertfordshire (if we ignore four years in Scotland and one in New Zealand), Sarah J. Mason now lives in Somerset-within easy reach of the beautiful city of Wells, and just far enough from Glastonbury to avoid the annual traffic jams.