Hamilton Crane Bücher

The year is 1940 and the British have their backs to the wall. Everyone is preparing for the battle that, as Winston Churchill said, would see the “whole fury and might of the enemy turned upon us.” Everyone including the young Miss Emily Seeton, London art teacher, who finds her strangely prophetic sketches do not go unnoticed by the secret services. At first suspected of being a fifth columnist, she soon finds herself recruited by the dashing Major Gerry Haynes and sent to carry out a very special observance task at a rural Spitfire factory. Faced with bombs, sabotage and murder, Miss Seeton must summon all her courage – it is after all her nature to Keep Calm and Carry On!

While Miss Seeton and her trusty sketch pad assist in the investigation of a certain asphalt company whose otherwise healthy elderly customers end up dead, an eccentric and determined artist stalks her, keeping his eyes on her cottage for his newest work, a chocolate-covered house

A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece

A sketch she makes at a cricket match reveals to Miss Seeton vital clues to a series of burglaries that has upset the town of Plummergen

Set against the backdrop of a festive pantomime production in a quaint English village, the story revolves around Lady Colveden's hilarious rendition of Cinderella. Miss Emily Seeton, excited about her involvement, takes on the role of set designer, leading to a series of delightful events. The narrative captures the charm of community spirit and the joy of the holiday season, blending humor with the warmth of village life.

Retired art teacher Emily Seeton assists in Scotland Yard's sleuthing when, during a moto coach tour, the bus is held up by highwaymen and the danger thereafter follows her to her home

The village of Plummergen is abuzz with excitement. A television crew has arrived in search of an apple--not just any apple, but the rare Plummergen Peculier, to be spotlighted in a special show on British food. At the same time, the police are on a search of their own for the elusive antique thieves who have burglarized a number of houses--and murdered an innocent man in the process. In the middle of it all is Miss Seeton, who will trip up the troublemakers in her inimitable style--and, quite unwittingly, become the apple of Scotland Yard's eye.