Miranda Must Die

Known to her friends as Futile Philip, poor Miranda is almost drowning in a murky canal at the characteristic start of Henry Calvin's new, inconsequential thriller. Was she pushed or did she fall? And what happened to the letter she was clutching at the time? It told her that she had inherited a factory somewhere in Scotland. But where? Miranda sets out to discover her inheritance. Her refusal to wear spectacles in spite of short sight, her tendency to babble nonsense when under stress, her unfailing habit of getting into compromising situations with lecherous young men (and her desperate efforts to disentangle herself) inevitably tend to land her in the most ignominious scrapes. Especially when one of the young men is a homicidal maniac. . . Henry Calvin continue to add to his reputation as one of the best exponents of the art of the light thriller in the business. This is his sixth novel under this pseudonym; as Clifford Hanley, which is his real name, he has an established reputation as a leading Scottish writer.