Margot Bennett Books In Order
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Time to Change Hats | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Away Went the Little Fish | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Pebble | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Widow of Bath | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farewell Crown & Goodbye King | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Didn't Fly | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Way Back | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Someone from the Past | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Summer's Earthquake | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Furious Masters | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of British Library Crime Classics Books
The Notting Hill Mystery | (1862) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Female Detective | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poisoned Chocolates Case | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It Walks by Night | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery in the Channel | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castle Skull | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Incredible Crime | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder of a Lady | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Gallows | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Z Murders | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Division Bell Mystery | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Portrait of a Murderer | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Fancy Dress | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Family Matters | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hog's Back Mystery | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Underground | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scarweather | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of an Airman | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spy Paramount | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 12.30 from Croydon | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chianti Flask | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lake District Murder | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Cherwell | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cornish Coast Murder | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traitor | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Santa Klaus Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sussex Downs Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in Piccadilly | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery in White | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bats in the Belfry | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheltenham Square Murder | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Excellent Intentions | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Museum | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antidote to Venom | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Guests | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Port of London Murders | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Dead | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Verdict of Twelve | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Scream in Soho | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Busybody | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Somebody at the Door | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Checkmate to Murder | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fell Murder | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder by Matchlight | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trouble on the Thames | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire in the Thatch | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Makes a Prophet | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smallbone Deceased | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calamity in Kent | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Has Deep Roots | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Danger Within / Death in Captivity | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Mill-Race | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossed Skis | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Riviera | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Colour Of Murder | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Egg | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Progress of a Crime | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spoilt Kill | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body in the Dumb River | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Due to a Death | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfeit of Suspects | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Belting Inheritance | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Best Friend | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Web | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resorting to Murder | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Nights | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Manor | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Serpents in Eden | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimson Snow | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foreign Bodies | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Arm of the Law | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miraculous Mysteries | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Continental Crimes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Tracks | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Measure of Malice | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two-Way Murder | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - May 1954 - Vol. 6, No. 5 | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Margot Bennett was a Scottish born author and a screenwriter. She is known for writing crime, mystery, and thriller novels.
Margot was born on January 19, 1912, in Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She attended school in Scotland as well as Australia.
Before she ever was a fiction writer, Margot was employed as an advertising copywriter in London and Sydney. When the Spanish Civil War arrived, she kept busy as a nurse and also functioned as a translator. She was a broadcaster for the Spanish Medical Aid. She was injured during the course of her nursework during the war when the truck she was in turned over and she was shot in both of her legs.
She wrote for the magazine Lilliput for several years between the course of 1943 and 1950. She is best known for writing her crime fiction during the forties and the fifties. She also wrote thrillers and contemporary literature and a science guide in 1964 called The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation.
She also ventured into science fiction, seen in her novel The Long Way Back. This book featured the storyline of Africa colonizing Britain after a nuclear Holocaust. Her science fiction novel The Man Who Didn’t Fly did well among readers and got her nominated for a Gold Dagger Award.
She was reviewed in The New York Times in 1962, where Anthony Boucher named her as one of the top Englishwomen in the suspense field, also noting authors Joan Fleming, Nina Bawden, and Charity Blackstock in that category.
On top of being an author, Margot also wrote scripts for TV. She contributed to Maigret, Quick Before They Catch Us, Emergency-Ward 10, and Market in Honey Lane. She was also the second ever female author to be connected to the show Doctor Who in 1964, although the story that she was going to contribute never came to fruition.
Margot Bennett also wrote the screenplays for her adapted books, memorably The Widow of Bath.
She met her husband during the Spanish Civil War. This was when she met Richard Lawrence Bennett for the first time, an English writer and journalist. He had served the Spanish Republican Army and wrote broadcasts for Radio Catalan during the conflict. The two were married in Barcelona by a Republican soldier.
The couple had four children together, three sons and a daughter. One son would pass away from fighting muscular dystrophy.
The author supported left-wing politics and in particular the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Later she lived in London. Margot passed away on December 6. 1980.
The Long Way Back is a science fiction novel by Margot Bennett. It was published in 1954.
Somewhere in the future, humanity is in a dire way. The atomic blast that went off changed everything. Those of humanity that survived are left to deal with the fall out.
The book is set in the future, largely in Britain. As a tiny expedition from Africa sets out, their goal is to look for a civilization that existed before the blast.
During the course of their search of the dense forests. they find mutant animals and people who have reverted to the stone age. They also happen to find one survivor that seems intelligent enough at least.
Will Africa end up colonizing Britain in this sci fi fare? Get a copy of The Long Way Back to follow all of the twists and turns in this unique exploration of what could happen in nuclear bombs went off and destroyed the world.
The Man Who Didn’t Fly is a 1955 novel from author Margot Bennett.
Four men have made plans to fly to Dublin, but will things go as hoped? Not exactly. Their plane goes down in flames into the Irish Sea. Three of them were on the plane at the time.
The passengers on the plane are lost to the waves, with no way to find out their identity. So starts an investigation so they can find out who is living and who is dead, and there’s no real way to follow that beyond a few pieces of overheard talk and a family’s rendition of what happened prior to the flight.
Who is the man that chose not to fly to Dublin? What could he possibly have to gain? Would he have been willing to kill to get what he wants? This is a classic mystery tale that will have you turning the pages to find out what happens next and how it all ends!
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