Case 7 - Middle Class, Middle Aged Ladies Indulge

Cooper, B. Target for Malice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964

Cooper, B. Target for Malice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964

Elizabeth Messenger was a well-known wine and cookery writer for the Evening Post before she began her nine crime novels.
Anne Holden, the wife of a diplomat, was probably better known for her novel Rata than her crime novels. However The Witnesses was made into an American film entitled The Bedroom Window.
Valerie Grayland wrote a wide range of fiction and nonfiction but the Dead Men of Eden is not only an engrossing ‘whodunnit’ but a foretelling of Auckland’s housing problems.
Cooper, B. Target for Malice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964

Cooper, B. Target for Malice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964
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Grayland, V. M. The Grave-Digger’s Apprentice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964

Grayland, V. M. The Grave-Digger’s Apprentice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964

Grayland, V. M. The Grave-Digger’s Apprentice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964

Grayland, V. M. The Grave-Digger’s Apprentice. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964
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Holden, A. The Witnesses. London: MacMillan, 1971

Holden, A. The Witnesses. London: MacMillan, 1971

Holden, A. The Witnesses. London: MacMillan, 1971

Holden, A. The Witnesses. London: MacMillan, 1971
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Messenger, E. Growing Evil. London: Robert Hale, 1964

Messenger, E. Growing Evil. London: Robert Hale, 1964

Messenger, E. Growing Evil. London: Robert Hale, 1964

Messenger, E. Growing Evil. London: Robert Hale, 1964
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Messenger, E. Murder Stalks the Bay. London: Robert Hale, 1958

Messenger, E. Murder Stalks the Bay. London: Robert Hale, 1958

Messenger, E. Murder Stalks the Bay. London: Robert Hale, 1958

Messenger, E. Murder Stalks the Bay. London: Robert Hale, 1958
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Grayland, V. M. The Dead Men of Eden.  London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1962

Grayland, V. M. The Dead Men of Eden. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1962

Grayland, V. M. The Dead Men of Eden.  London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1962

Grayland, V. M. The Dead Men of Eden. London: Robert Hale; New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1962
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