The Norwich Victims: An Inspector Martin Mystery - Tapa blanda

A middle-aged schoolteacher wins the French lottery and looks around for somewhere safe to invest her prize. Unfortunately for her she decides to consult the unscrupulous John Throgmorton, and he seizes a once in a lifetime opportunity, murdering the unsuspecting Miss Haslett and sending his secretary and partner in crime, Hermione Taylor, to Paris to collect the money. Throgmorton's devious plan is executed to perfection, and it seems that nothing can go wrong. But then he receives an unexpected visitor...

Francis Beeding is the pseudonym for the writers Hilary St. George Saunders (1898-1951) and John Palmer (1885-1944), who collaboratively wrote dozens of novels throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and into the 1940s. Francis Beeding has over thirty novels to his credit, five of which have been adapted into feature films. Palmer was a drama critic, whilst Saunders worked for the Air Ministry in World War II and was librarian of the House of Commons from 1946 to 1950.