Margot Neville

About the Author

Margot Neville - actually two sisters, Ann Neville Goyder Joske (1887-1966) and Margot Goyder (1907-1975). They wrote successful plays, novels and two screenplays under the joint pseudonym from 1923, coming to detective fiction with Murder in Rockwater (1944). They also wrote a play with Joan Lindsay, author of Picnic at Hanging Rock. In all they wrote 22 crime novels, mostly police procedurals set in Sydney, with detectives Grogan and Manning.

Bibliography

• Murder in Rockwater 1944 (aka Lena Hates Men)
• Murder and Gardenias 1946
• Murder in A Blue Moon 1948
• Murder of A Nymph 1949
• Come, Thick Night 1951 (aka Divining Rod For Murder)
• Murder Before Marriage 1951
• The Seagull Said Murder 1952
• Murder of the Well Beloved 1953
• Murder and Poor Jenny 1954
• The Hateful Voyage 1956
• Murder of Olympia 1956
• Murder To Welcome Her 1957
• The Flame of Murder 1958
• Sweet Night For Murder 1959
• Confession of Murder 1960
• Murder Beyond the Pale 1961
• Drop Dead 1962
• Come See Me Die 1963
• My Bad Boy 1964
• Ladies in the Dark 1965
• Head on the Sill 1966