A Quiet Death in Micklegate
A retired bell-ringer, a dead antiques dealer and a teacup that was washed far too carefully.
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Margaret Oddie rang the bells at St Martin’s for forty years and retired to a life of crosswords and quiet. When the antiques dealer across the road in Micklegate is found dead at his desk, the police call it a heart attack. Margaret, who noticed the teacup on his draining board had been washed and dried and put away, is not so sure. The first Margaret Oddie mystery.
Margaret Oddie had known Harold Dunstan for thirty years and had never once seen him wash up. His shop in Micklegate was full of Georgian silver and Victorian china, and his little kitchen at the back was always full of dirty cups. So when the police let her in to identify the body, the first thing she noticed was the clean teacup on the draining board. It was one of the good ones, Coalport, with a gold rim. It had been washed, dried and turned upside down on a folded tea towel. Harold had not t
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I was clerk to a parish council outside York for twenty-six years, which is the finest training for a crime writer that exists. Every murder in my books has a motive I once saw minuted. My detective, Margaret Oddie, is a retired bell-ringer who notices things because nobody notices her. I write at the kitchen table of a narrow house off Bishopthorpe Road, with a view of a wall and a very old cat called Inspector. I have been married to a patient man named Graham since 1990, and I walk the city walls every morning to plot.
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