Mary Fitt was the pseudonym of Kathleen Freeman (1897-1959) a classical scholar who taught Greek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff. Starting in 1937, she wrote 27 mysteries and a number of short stories as Mary Fitt and was elected to the Detection Club in 1950. Aside from her detective novels, Freeman published many books on classical Greece, scholarly articles and children’s stories. She lived in St Mellons in Wales with her friend Dr Liliane Marie Catherine Clopet, a family physician, who wrote short stories and fairy tales.
A novel of crime in which half Indian Hugo, returning to the house
and fortune left him by the whimsical will of a British father,
meets the antagonism of English Ursula and Jim, children of a
second marriage. Their emotional entanglements, the imposture of
Hugo and the murder of the real Hugo, the possible re-willing of
the estate to an outsider, lead to a second death, the
self-betrayal and suicide of the killer. A leisurely but practised
performance.
*Kirkus Reviews*
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