Chain of Witnesses The Cases of Miss Phipps Viets which received a 2012 Edgar

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

This collection includes two stories in the Dead-End Jobs series and one each about Francesca Vierling and Angela Richman

Quarles opened an office in Trafalgar Square

The wizened

Chain of Witnesses The Cases of Miss Phipps Viets which received a 2012 EdgarPhyllis 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