Carolyn Wheat book: Tales Out of School Patricia McElroy Carlson flits from Queen Victoria's jubilee

flits from Queen Victoria's jubilee to the home of the Rightful King of England

“Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity

Spanning the years 1954 to 1966

The Case of the Flying Graveyard

Lauded by Agatha Christie as the Master of Alibis and praised by the contemporary press for his carefully constructed detective mysteries

Carolyn Wheat book: Tales Out of School Patricia McElroy Carlson flits from Queen Victoria's jubileeCarolyn Wheat book Seventeen years ago, Carolyn Wheat burst on the mystery scene with her Edgar nominated first novel about Cass Jameson, one of the first female lawyers in a crime series. Since then Wheat has written five more novels and some of the finest recent short stories in the genre. Throughout Wheat's work is sympathy for the underdog and the helpless. The title story in Tales Out of School, her first short story collection, explores how an