She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.
Anne Belinda has disappearedâand every time John Waveney mentions her name there is an ominous silence. Lady Jenifer Marr, Anneâs twin sister, says she is in Spain. Which is oddâfor John is sure he...
When Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, she didnât bargain for a series of sinister occurrencesâscary noises, the nocturnal rattle of claws against glass, a sabotaged bicycle....
Marooned as a baby, Valentine Ryven has been on a deserted South Sea island for twenty years, before she is rescued and returned to civilizationâas heiress to a great fortune.
What is the mystery shrouding the lovely but sinister Annam stone, stolen from a remote shrine? Every owner of it has suffered an unhappy fate. When Peter Waring, nephew of the original thief, inherited the jewel, it would mean great power and wealth&acir...
There was a hand pressed against the window, a large hand that looked unnaturally white, the blood driven from it by the pressure of a man's weight. The light showed the pale fingers-and the still paler palm crossed by a dark, jagged scar.
David Fordyce wasnât looking forward to his birthday party, an annual event he shared with his grandmother. But this year Eleanor would be thereâEleanor, whom he had not seen in seven years, ever since sheâ&...
When Sarah Marlowe, secretary to the president of the New Psychical Society, touches the cold, strange object in her hand-bag, she thinks at first it is a snake. As things turn out, it is almost as dangerous.
âThe door!â he shouted. âThe door!â Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water-lilies and the storks, where the top panel of the door had shown, there...
She was looking at the place where the mirror had hung. It didnât reflect anything because the glass was gone. Instead there was a blackness, a dark hole full of shadows. There was a shuffling and a sighing, and a deep and dreadful groan...
Rose Anne disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Captain Oliver Loddon. Her fiancé received a letter posted from Paris saying she was sorry but there was someone else.
So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally down and out, for the soles of his shoes had gone long ago and the uppers show a crack which mean doom to his hopes of a job. And he has just met Isobel: Isobel whom he had not seen for three...
Ambrose Minstrel, the inventor, is undoubtedly eccentric. But even his oddities cannot account for the strange events at Meade House. Young Hugo Ross, Minstrelâs new secretary, feels that all the dark happenings centre somehow on himself...
Now that Marian has broken their engagement, Lindsay Trevor finds danger welcome, even though it means dyeing his hair red and impersonating his cousin Froth as Restowâs secretary.
Young Jeremy Ware is suspected of stealing important papers, and Colonel Garrett of the Secret Service (last seen in Danger Calling ) consults Benbow Smith about it. Even Rosalind Denny, still grieving for her late husband, suspects Jeremy. But when the...