Miss Seeton Flies High

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Lucky Miss Seeton! A modest Premium Bond win means a whole week in legendary Glastonbury. She can draw and drink in the surroundings, just what she needs for her scene-painting role in the village production of 'Camelot'.

By coincidence, the kidnapped Heir to an industrial family may be hidden around there and Chief Superintendent Delphick has asked the ex-art teacher to create some of her famous, insightful sketches. Even he is nonplussed by the resulting images of capering sheep in straitjackets, flashing false teeth!

But the Heir is in danger, a murderer is lurking, and the first victim may not be the last. Then fortune favours Miss Seeton again, her raffle ticket winning her a hot air balloon flight, and well, it's just amazing what you can see from above . . .

Serene amidst every kind of skulduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

Reviews

PRAISE FORMISS SEETON:

'This is not so much black comedy as black-currant comedy . . . You cant stop reading. Or laughing'The Sun

'A most beguiling protagonist!'New York Times

'Miss Seeton gets into wild drama with fine touches of farce This is a lovely mixture of the funny and the exciting'San Francisco Chronicle

'Depth of description and lively charactersbring this English village to life'Publishers Weekly

'Fun to be had witha full cast of endearingly zany villagers... and the ever gently intuitive Miss Seeton'Kirkus Reviews

'Miss Seeton isthe most delightfully satisfactory character since Miss Marple'Ogden Nash

'I think, on the whole, Miss Seeton is the most loveable and entertaining of any of todays fiction detectives.May she live forever'London Mystery Selection

'Light, zany, this novel is peopled by several genuine human beings you hate to see go'Houston Post

'For those who like a bit of fun in their mystery stories a new Miss Seeton yarn is always welcome. Heron Carvic once more provides his readers with a host of chuckles while at the same time assuring plenty of action'Lewiston Journal

'Shes a joy!'Cleveland Plain Journal

'Miss Seeton is a star!'Detroit News

'Not since Agatha Christies Miss Marple has there been a more lovable female dabbler in crime and suspense'Amarillo News

Author Bio

Hamilton Crane is the pseudonym used by Sarah J. Mason when writing for the Miss Seeton series. She has also written detective fiction under her own name, but should not be confused with the Sarah Mason (no middle initial) who writes a rather different kind of book.

After half a century in Hertfordshire (if we ignore four years in Scotland and one in New Zealand), Sarah J. Mason now lives in Somerset-within easy reach of the beautiful city of Wells, and just far enough from Glastonbury to avoid the annual traffic jams.