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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 "The Traveller Returns" (also known as "She Came Back") appeared in 1945 and has thirty-seven chapters.
“. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveller returns.”
HAMLET
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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