Watch the Wall, Miss Seeton

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Have the smugglers made a grave mistake

Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.

As Miss Seeton sketches the most notorious tomb in Plummergen churchyard - the one built for 19th-century smuggler Abraham Voller - she meets a young American tourist. He claims to be a descendant of the Voller family, but is he a truly innocent ancestor-hunter, or do smugglers inherit their trade

When the school concert includes a performance of Kipling's "A Smuggler's Song" it begins to seem that everyone is at it ... but we can rely on Miss Seeton to ensure that the police will get their man, and the smugglers' dreams will go up in smoke!

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.