The Minster Bell
Margaret Oddie is asked to ring one last peal. The tower holds more than bells.
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For the anniversary of the great bell’s recasting, Margaret Oddie is invited to ring one last peal in the tower of York Minster. Halfway up the stairs she finds a cashbox that should have been in the vestry safe, and a treasurer who should have been at home. The second Margaret Oddie mystery.
There were two hundred and seventy-five steps to the ringing chamber of the Minster’s south-west tower, and Margaret Oddie counted every one of them. At sixty-three she did not climb stairs so much as negotiate with them. On the hundred and fortieth step she found a green cashbox wedged behind a stone ledge. It was the vestry committee’s cashbox. She knew because she had counted the Christmas collection into it for fifteen years.
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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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