Heron Carvic's fame as a mystery writer rests on his Miss Seeton series, which features a dotty little old lady who lives in the small English village of Plummergen. Miss Seeton is a familiar enough type, reminiscent of a beloved former schoolteacher or a kindly elderly friend or relative. This unlikely heroine becomes involved in a surprising amount of criminal activity and tangled predicaments and manages through unexpected methods to escape horrifying situations and aid in catching the criminal or criminals. Readers are entertained by the humorous twists to the mysteries and their hilarious parodies of scenes and types popularized in Golden Age mysteries such as those featuring Agatha Christie's Miss Marple or Patricia Wentworth's Maud Silver, both septuagenarian sleuths with noses for trouble and fingers on the pulse of a village or community. Elderly, fragile, and endangered, Miss Seeton faces a modern world of chaos and street...