Book description
When wealthy Mrs. Ffeathers takes a liking to her granddaughter,
Patience, she changes her will, leaving her fortune to the girl. Then
Mrs. Ffeathers is found poisoned, and it seems that only one person has
a financial motive. Fifty years later, the mystery remains unsolved.
Jane Aiken Hodge was born in Massachusetts to Pulitzer prize-winning
poet, Conrad Aiken, and his first wife, writer Jessie McDonald. Hodge
was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye,
East Sussex, where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist
and a children s writer, was born.
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford
University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe
College. She was a civil servant, and also worked for Time Magazine,
before returning to the UK in 1947. Her works of fiction include
historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she
renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
