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Dora Amy Elles was born in the Indian hill station of Mussoorie, and educated in London at Blackheath High School for girls.
In her work she used the pen-name Patricia Wentworth. She gave us sixty-six books, thirty-two of which are detective novels.
Her novel "Unlawful Occasions" (also known as Weekend with Death) appeared in 1941 and has forty chapters.
Here is a list of her production: Grey Mask, 1928 Fool Errant, 1929 Danger Calling, 1931 Walk with Care, 1933 Dead or Alive, 1936 Down Under, 1937 The Case Is Closed, 1937 Lonesome Road, 1939 The Blind Side, 1939 Rolling Stone, 1940 Who Pays the Piper?, 1940 Danger Point, 1941 Pursuit of a Parcel, 1942 The Chinese Shawl, 1943 Miss Silver Intervenes, 1943 The Clock Strikes Twelve, 1944 The Key, 1944 The Traveller Returns, 1945 Pilgrim's Rest (or: Dark Threat), 1946 Latter End, 1947 Spotlight, 1947 The Case of William Smith, 1948 Eternity Ring, 1948 The Catherine Wheel, 1949 Miss Silver Comes to Stay, 1949 The Brading Collection (or: Mr Brading's Collection), 1950 The Ivory Dagger, 1951 Through the Wall, 1950 Anna, Where Are You? (or: Death At Deep End), 1951 The Watersplash, 1954 Ladies' Bane, 1952 Out of the Past, 1953 The Silent Pool, 1954 Vanishing Point, 1953 The Benevent Treasure, 1953 The Gazebo (or: The Summerhouse), 1955 The Listening Eye, 1955 Poison in the Pen, 1955 The Fingerprint, 1956 The Alington Inheritance, 1958 The Girl in the Cellar, 1961
Standalone: A Marriage under the Terror, 1910 A Child's Rhyme Book, 1910 A Little More Than Kin (or: More Than Kin), 1911 The Devil's Wind, 1912 The Fire Within, 1913 Simon Heriot, 1914 Queen Anne Is Dead, 1915 Earl or Chieftain?, 1919 The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, 1923 The Red Lacquer Case, 1924 The Annam Jewel, 1924 The Black Cabinet, 1925 The Dower House Mystery, 1925 The Amazing Chance, 1926 Hue and Cry, 1927 Anne Belinda, 1927 Will-o'-the-Wisp, 1928 Beggar's Choice, 1930 The Coldstone, 1930 Kingdom Lost, 1931 Nothing Venture, 1932 What Became of Anne, 1932 Red Danger, 1932 Seven Green Stones, 1933 Devil-in-the-Dark, 1934 Fear by Night, 1934 Red Stefan, 1935 Blindfold, 1935 Hole and Corner, 1936 Mr Zero, 1938 Afraid to Love, 1938 Run!, 1938 Unlawful Occasions, 1941 Beneath the Hunter's Moon, Poems, 1945 Silence in Court, 1947
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