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Superintendent Wilson #16
The Missing Aunt
252 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1938
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About the author
G.D.H. Cole
488 books37 followersGeorge Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement. He and his wife Margaret Cole (1893-1980) together wrote many popular detective stories, featuring the investigators Superintendent Wilson, Everard Blatchington and Dr Tancred.
Cole was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford.
As a conscientious objector during World War One, Cole's involvement in the campaign against conscription introduced him to a co-worker, Margaret Postgate, whom he married in 1918. The couple both worked for the Fabian Society for the next six years before moving to Oxford, where Cole started writing for the Manchester Guardian. During these years, he also authored several economic and historical works including biographies of William Cobbett and Robert Owen. In 1925, he became reader in economics at University College, Oxford. In 1944, Cole became the first Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. He was succeeded in the chair by Isaiah Berlin in 1957.
Cole was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford.
As a conscientious objector during World War One, Cole's involvement in the campaign against conscription introduced him to a co-worker, Margaret Postgate, whom he married in 1918. The couple both worked for the Fabian Society for the next six years before moving to Oxford, where Cole started writing for the Manchester Guardian. During these years, he also authored several economic and historical works including biographies of William Cobbett and Robert Owen. In 1925, he became reader in economics at University College, Oxford. In 1944, Cole became the first Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. He was succeeded in the chair by Isaiah Berlin in 1957.
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December 24, 2020
In the end a good plot, but long winded.
December 21, 2014
John Widecombe comes to Gracechurch to woo his university girlfriend Katherine, and immediately meets one of the more eccentric members of her family. In addition to her mostly crazy grandmother and criminal father, Katherine has her devoted step-aunt Mary Anne, and her second step-aunt, who is dying of cancer. But Mary Anne disappears and Elinor is poisoned before her disease can kill her. Fortunately, Wilson of the Yard is available to dig through the puzzle, which has the only people with motives firmly alibied, and the people with the personality of killers with no motives at all.
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