Chain of Witnesses The Cases of Miss Phipps Viets This anthology contains fourteen of

This anthology contains fourteen of today's outstanding English and American short story authors

The wizened

first lulling us into delight and then surging into a madness only seen behind closed bedroom doors

Quarles opened an office in Trafalgar Square

which received a 2012 Edgar Award from The Mystery Writers of America

Chain of Witnesses The Cases of Miss Phipps Viets This anthology contains fourteen ofPhyllis Bentley, OBE (1894 1977) was a major regional novelist of her native Yorkshire. In the 1930's she began to write detective short stories, featuring a spinster detective novelist, Miss Phipps. In the first story she meets a young police officer on a train; he is studying his papers to solve a crime; she is suffering from writer's block. Their papers become mixed together, and Miss Phipps, in typical armchair detective form, solves the crime for