Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.
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
Miss Seeton is a retired, often bemuddled British art teacher with a slight psychic ability for drawing things more accurately than they appear. In Witch Miss Seeton, unlikely detective Miss Seeton goes undercover at the request of Scotland Yard to investigate some bewitching shenanigans after a sudden interest in the occult sweeps through Plummergen.
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
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.
Ein Verbrechersyndikat erpresst die Spielcasinos in London, während die Polizei erfolglos ermittelt. Miss Seeton wird undercover eingeschleust, um die Täter zu entlarven. Mit ihrer tolpatschigen, aber erfolgreichen Art und ausgestattet mit Hutnadel, Regenschirm und Zeichenblock, jagt sie die Verbrecher.
In einem kleinen englischen Dorf geschehen gar wunderliche Dinge: Von schwarzen Messen und anderen okkulten Ritualen ist die Rede. Keine Frage, wen Scotland Yard als Geheimwaffe ins Feld führt: Miss Seeton tanzt den Hexentanz.
