Book description
When his wife's friend, Rachel, writes to tell of the peculiar murder
of a young woman in her sleepy market town, Dr. David Wintringham is
intrigued enough to leave his usual top secret medical work for Her
Majesty's Government to pay a visit to Shornford, where the local police
are struggling to make sense of events.
Together with Inspector Staines of the local constabulary, he tries to
unravel the curious case of Ursula Frinton and why anyone would want her
dead. As David is slowly pulled into a web of intrigue that stretches
far beyond Wakeley Manor, Shornford, and its inhabitants, what started
out as a flight of curiosity becomes a fight for a much larger truth,
and death waits around every corner.
Josephine Bell was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester, England.
Between 1910 and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at
Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. At the University College
Hospital in London she was granted M. R.C. S. and L. R.C. P. in 1922,
and a M. B. B. S. in 1924.
Bell was a prolific author, writing forty-three novels and numerous
uncollected short stories during a forty-five year period.
Many of her short stories appeared in the London Evening Standard
. Using her pen name she wrote numerous detective novels beginning in
1936, and she was well-known for her medical mysteries. Her early books
featured the fictional character Dr. David Wintringham who worked at
Research Hospital in London as a junior assistant physician. She helped
found the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and served as chair during
1959-60.
