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Who should be hobnobbing with the great and the good at a Buckingham Palace garden party but little Miss Emily Seeton, retired teacher and artistic sleuth. It seems there may be a traitor amongst HM's faithful retainers. But while Miss Seeton is viewing shrunken heads and other royal treasures with Sir Wormelow Tump, a plan is being hatched by a titled crook to steal valuables of a different kind. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where show more Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella! show lessTags
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Miss Seeton meets the queen in this one. It opens with her receiving an invitation to one of the Queen's garden parties. At the same time, her good friends the Colvedens are hosting a high fashion photo shoot.
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Peter Martin was born in London, England on January 5, 1931. Before becoming a cultural diplomat, he read philosophy at Birkbeck College and served in the Royal Air Force. He worked for the Royal Festival Hall and then with the British Council. While working in Kyoto, Japan, he and his second wife, Joan Drumwright, wrote Japanese Cooking. He also show more wrote The Chrysanthemum Throne: A History of the Emperors of Japan. Under the pseudonym James Melville, he wrote the Superintendent Otani Mystery series, The Imperial Way, and A Tarnished Phoenix. Under the pseudonym Hampton Charles, he wrote three novels about Miss Seeton. He died in 2014 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Miss Seeton by Appointment
- Original publication date
- 1990-04
- People/Characters
- Cedric Benbow (Clive Bennett); Norah Blaine (Bunny); Chris Brinton (Chief Detective Inspector); Sir George Colveden; Meg Colveden; Delphick (Detective Superintendent, the Oracle) (show all 17); Sir Hubert Everleigh (Assistant Commissioner); Roland Fenn (Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Special Branch); Amelita Forby (Mel); Marigold Naseby (Wendy Smith); Erica Nuttel; Potter (Police Constable); Sir Sebastian Prothero; Bob Ranger (Detective Sergeant); Emily Dorothea Seeton; Ferencz Szabo (Fred Taylor); Sir Wormelow Tump (Wonky)
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- Kent, England, UK; Plummergen, Kent, England, UK
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 6
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