Female : Crime Novelist. Creator of Dame Beatrice Bradley, psychiatric adviser to the Home Office

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Cowley, Oxfordshire

Date of Birth : 1901 Date of Death : 1983 Age : 82

Pseudonyms : Stephen Hockaby, Malcolm Torrie

Other Work : Teacher at girl's schools in Ealing & Brentford 1929-1950

Education : University College, London

1929-1935
Speedy Death (1929 Gollancz) (1929 Dial Press)
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (1929 Gollancz) (1930 Dial Press)
The Longer Bodies (1930 Gollancz)
The Saltmarsh Murders (1932 Gollancz) (1933 Macrae-Smith, Philadelphia)
Marsh Hay (1933 Grayson) - as Stephen Hockaby
Death at the Opera (1934 Grayson) (1934 as "Death in the Wet" Macrae-Smith)
Seven Stars and Orion (1934 Grayson) - as Stephen Hockaby
The Devil at Saxon Wall (1935 Grayson)
Gabriel's Hold (1935 Grayson) - as Stephen Hockaby

1936-1945
Shallow Brown (1936 Michael Joseph) - as Stephen Hockaby
Outlaws of the Border (1936 Pitmans) - as Stephen Hockaby
Dead Men's Morris (1936 Michael Joseph from here on
Come Away Death (1937)
St Peter's Finger (1938) (1987 St Martin's Press)
Printer's Error (1939)
Grand Master (1939 MJ) - as Stephen Hockaby
Brazen Tongue (1940)
The Three Fingerprints (1940 Heinemann)
Hangman's Curfew (1941)
When Last I Died (1941) (1942 Knopf)
Laurels are Poison (1942)
The Worsted Viper (1943) (1980 Severn House)
Sunset Over Soho (1943)
My Father Sleeps (1944)
The Rising of the Moon (1945) (1984 St Martin's NY)

1946-1955
Here Comes a Chopper (1946) (1972 Tom Stacey)
Death and the Maiden (1947)
The Dancing Druids (1948)
Holiday River (1948 Evans)
Tom Brown's Body (1949)
The Seven Stones Mystery (1949 Evans)
The Malory Secret (1950 Evans)
Groaning Spinney (1950)
The Devil's Elbow (1951)
Pam at Storne Castle (1951 Evans)
The Echoing Strangers (1952)
Merlin's Furlong (1953)
Caravan Creek (1954 Blackie)
On Your Marks (1954 Heinemann)
Faintly Speaking (1954) (1986 St Martin's)
Watson's Choice (1955) (1976 McKay, NY)

1956-1960
Twelve Horse and the Hangman's Noose (1956) (1958 British Book Centre, US)
The Twenty Third Man (1957)
Spotted Hemlock (1958) (1958 British Book Centre, NY) (1985 St Martin's)
The Light Blue Hills (1959 Bodley Head)
The Man Who Grew Tomatoes (1959) (1959 British Book Centre)
Say it with Flowers (1960) (1960 London House, US)

1961-1965
The Nodding Canaries (1961)
My Bones will Keep (1962) (1962 British Book Centre)
Adders on the Heath (1963) (1963 British Book Centre)
Death of Delft Blue (1964) (1965 British Book Centre)
Pageant of a Murderer (1965) (1965 British Book Centre)

1966-1975
The Croaking Raven (1966)
Heavy as Lead (1966 Michael Joseph) - as Malcolm Torrie
Late and Cold (1967 Michael Joseph) - as Malcolm Torrie
Skeleton Island (1967)
Three Quick and Five Dead (1968)
Your Secret friend (1968 Michael Joseph) - as Malcolm Torrie
Churchyard Salad (1969 Michael Joseph) - as Malcolm Torrie
Dance to Your Daddy (1969)
Gory Dew (1970)
Shades of Darkness (1970 Michael Joseph) - as Malcolm Torrie
Bismarck's Herrings (1971 Michael Joseph) - as Malcolm Torrie
Lament for Letto (1971)
A Hearse on May-Day (1972)
The Murder of Busy Lizzie (1973)
A Javelin for Jonah (1974)
Winking at the Brim (1974) (1977 McKay)
Convent on Styx (1975)

1976-1984
Late, Late in the Evening (1976)
Noonday and Night (1977)
Fault in the Structure (1977)
Wraiths and Changelings (1978)
Mingled with Venom (1978)
Nest of Vipers (1979)
The Mudflats of the Dead (1979)
Uncoffin'd Clay (1980) (1981 St Martin's)
The Whispering Knights (1980)
The Death-Cap Dancers (1981) (1981 St Martin's)
Lovers, Make Moan (1981)
Here Lies Gloria Mundy (1982) (1983 St Martin's)
Death of a Burrowing Mole (1982)
The Greenstone Griffins (1983)
Cold, Lone & Still (1983)
No Winding Sheet (1984)
The Crozier Pharaohs (1984)