Scottish author Margot Bennett was born in 1912 and worked first first as a copywriter in the UK and Australia and then as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War before turning to writing.
Her output in crime fiction was relatively small, yet successful: The Man Who Didn't Fly was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and was runner-up to Charlotte Armstrong's A Dram of Poison for Best Novel at the Edgars in 1956, and she won the Gold Dagger two years later in 1958 with Someone from the Past. She was also chosen to contribute a short story to the second CWA anthology, Choice Of Weapons, edited by Michael Gilbert.
Awards: CWA (1958) see all
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Novels
Time to Change Hats (1945)
Away Went the Little Fish (1946)
The Golden Pebble (1948)
Farewell Crown and Goodbye King (1952)
The Widow of Bath (1952)
The Long Way Back (1954)
The Man Who Didn't Fly (1955)
Someone from the Past (1958)
That Summer's Earthquake (1964)
The Furious Masters (1968)
Away Went the Little Fish (1946)
The Golden Pebble (1948)
Farewell Crown and Goodbye King (1952)
The Widow of Bath (1952)
The Long Way Back (1954)
The Man Who Didn't Fly (1955)
Someone from the Past (1958)
That Summer's Earthquake (1964)
The Furious Masters (1968)
Books containing stories by Margot Bennett
The Edinburgh Mystery (2022)
And Other Tales of Scottish Crime
(British Library Crime Classics)
edited by
Martin Edwards
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