内容简介：
'Always an accomplished crime writer,' said the Tablet of Patricia Moyes, reviewing her last book, Angel Death. The Times Literary Supplement found it 'very neatly put together', while Theatre Print urged that she be promoted to Crown Princess of Crime, ranking only just below Ngaio Marsh. The book's Caribbean background was enjoyed both by William Weaver in the Financial Times ('an excellent description of a tropical hurricane') and by Marghanita Laski in the Listener ('tempestuous natural trims').
It all began as a practical joke. Could a real life detective solve a fictional mystery with as much finesse as the heroes of best-selling crime novels? By compiling an intriguing crossword puzzle and sending it anonymously to Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett of Scotland Yard, a group pf mystery writers decided to find out. Then the prank turned deadly.
Henry and Emmy Tibbett had been invited to the annual long weekend of the Guess Who? club. Its members, all pseudonymous, were crime writers published by the firm of Oppenshaw and Trilby and the weekend was held at Sir Robert Oppenshaw's home on the Isle of Wright. Then Henry was to reveal his solution to the puzzle.
But when a member of the house party died in an accident just when he was about to reveal the background to one of the clues, Henry found himself following a trail more than twenty years old as he and Emmy began to unravel the lives of the assembled writers. In a gripping story full of surprises, a secret kept for two decades is finally revealed.
作者简介：
Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, also known as Patricia Moyes (19 January 1923 – 2 August 2000) was a British mystery writer. Her mystery novel s feature C.I.D. Inspector Henry Tibbett. One of them, Who Saw Her Die (Many Deadly Returns in the USA) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1971. She wrote several juveniles and short stories.
"Penny" Moyes was born in Dublin, Ireland on 19 January 1923, the daughter of Marion ("Molly") Strachan and Ernest Pakenham-Walsh, who had been in the Indian civil service and was a High Court judge in Madras. She was educated at Overstone Girls' School in Northampton and joined the WAAF in 1939. In 1946 Peter Ustinov hired her as technical assistant on his film School for Secrets.
She became his personal assistant for the next eight years. In 1960 she co-wrote the screenplay for the film School for Scoundrels starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, and Alastair Sim.
During her next job as an Assistant Editor for London Vogue, Moyes also translated Jean Anouilh’s 1940 play Leocadia as Time Remembered. In London (1955), the major roles were taken by Paul Scofield, Margaret Rutherford, and Mary Ure. The 1957 Broadway production – starring Richard Burton, Helen Hayes, and Susan Strasberg — received several Tony awards. The success of Time Remembered enabled Moyes to leave Vogue and start writing mysteries.
She married photographer John Moyes in 1951; they divorced in 1959. She later married James Haszard, a linguist at the International Monetary Fund in The Hague.
She died at her home on the island of Virgin Gorda (British Virgin Islands) on 2 August 2000, aged 77, from undisclosed causes.
Inspector Henry Tibbett Mysteries
Dead Men Don't Ski (1959)
The Sunken Sailor (1961) - US title: Down Among the Dead Men
Death on the Agenda (1962)
Murder a la Mode (1963)
Falling Star (1964)
Johnny Under Ground (1965)
Murder Fantastical (1967)
Death and the Dutch Uncle (1968)
Who Saw Her Die? (1970) - US title: Many Deadly Returns
Season of Snows and Sins (1971)
The Curious Affair of the Third Dog (1973)
Black Widower (1975)
To Kill a Coconut (1977) - US title: The Coconut Killings
Who Is Simon Warwick? (1978)
Angel Death (1980)
A Six-Letter Word for Death (1983)
Night Ferry to Death (1985)
Black Girl, White Girl (1989)
Twice in a Blue Moon (1993)
Other Books
Time Remembered (play, 1955; translation of Anouilh's Leocadia)
After All, They're Only Cats (1973)
How to Talk to Your Cat (1978)
Who Killed Father Christmas/ And Other Unseasonable Demises (1996; short stories)