Heron Carvic (1913–1980)
Author of Picture Miss Seeton
About the Author
Born in London, England, Heron Carvic was a successful novelist, dancer, actor, designer, builder, decorator, and market gardener. He was educated at Eton College, was famous for writing numerous crime novels involving the title character of Miss Seeton. The books in the mystery series include show more Picture Miss Seeton, Miss Seeton Draws the Line, Witch Miss Seeton, Miss Seeton Sings, and Odds on Miss Seeton. In 1969, Carvic was awarded a special citation form the Mystery Writers of America, and his first Miss Seeton novel, Picture Miss Seeton, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. Carvic was a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Crime Writers Association. Carvic lived in Kent, England. He died in February of 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Heron Carvic (real name not published) wrote 5 Miss Seeton novels: Picture Miss Seeton, Miss Seeton Draws the Line, Witch Miss Seeton (also published as Miss Seeton Bewitched), Miss Seeton Sings, & Odds on Miss Seeton. Hampton Charles (aka James Melville; real name Roy Peter Martin) wrote the next 3: Miss Seeton by Appointment, Advantage Miss Seeton, & Miss Seeton at the Helm. All later Miss Seeton books were written by Sarah J. Mason, under the name Hamilton Crane.
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- Canonical name
- Carvic, Heron
- Legal name
- Harris, Geoffrey Rupert William
- Birthdate
- 1913-01-21
- Date of death
- 1980-02-09
- Burial location
- Cremated
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
UK - Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Appledore, Kent, England, UK - Occupations
- actor
voice actor - Disambiguation notice
- Heron Carvic (real name not published) wrote 5 Miss Seeton novels: Picture Miss Seeton, Miss Seeton Draws the Line, Witch Miss Seeton (also published as Miss Seeton Bewitched), Miss Seeton Sings, & Odds on Miss Seeton. Hampton Charles (aka James Melville; real name Roy Peter Martin) wrote the next 3: Miss Seeton by Appointment, Advantage Miss Seeton, & Miss Seeton at the Helm. All later Miss Seeton books were written by Sarah J. Mason, under the name Hamilton Crane.
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A delightful adaptation, though I never quite got used to the voices, coming from the later BBC dramatization of the Lord of the Rings and the much more recent film adaptations. It feels much older for sure, but there's a charm to that, too.
½Classic story, decent adaptation. Thumbs up from me.
I loved the first two Miss Seeton mysteries Picture Miss Seeton and Miss Seeton Draws the Line. So much so that I gobbled up the rest of the books by Heron Carvic to squirrel away when I needed to read something guaranteed to make me laugh. Unfortunately, book three (Witch Miss Seeton) is where the series began to unravel. The author began bringing in multiple plot lines, many more characters, and the humor that I loved so much devolved into farce. As you can tell by that last sentence, I don't really care for farce, humor being so subjective.
In Miss Seeton Sings, not only are there multiple plot lines and many more characters, Miss Seeton and her lethal umbrella aren't even in her English village anymore-- and her execrable French only had the power to make me smile a time or two. No, Miss Seeton does her best work in her village.
Although it was amusing to see how she and her umbrella escaped death time and again, I began getting angry with Scotland Yard and the other police agencies who just turned her loose and left her completely in the dark. I know there's some humor in there somewhere that completely escaped me, but I'm not going to worry about it.
I will say that, if you are a lover of farce, this is the book for you. If you're not, you might want to leave it alone.… (more)
In Miss Seeton Sings, not only are there multiple plot lines and many more characters, Miss Seeton and her lethal umbrella aren't even in her English village anymore-- and her execrable French only had the power to make me smile a time or two. No, Miss Seeton does her best work in her village.
Although it was amusing to see how she and her umbrella escaped death time and again, I began getting angry with Scotland Yard and the other police agencies who just turned her loose and left her completely in the dark. I know there's some humor in there somewhere that completely escaped me, but I'm not going to worry about it.
I will say that, if you are a lover of farce, this is the book for you. If you're not, you might want to leave it alone.… (more)
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
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