Background
Sarah Mason was born on December 18, 1949 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, to a former naval officer and schoolteacher Jack, and Margaret Mason an ex-naval officer.
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Sarah J. Mason received a Master of Arts in English at St. Andrews University in Scotland in 1972.
(Kate Keepdown, a nonagenarian widow who thrives on contro...)
Kate Keepdown, a nonagenarian widow who thrives on controversy, plans a scandalous scheme that can only lead to trouble when she gathers her family together to celebrate her birthday and disclose her plans for her will but celebrates murder instead.
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1985
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Rookie detective Stone teams up with seasoned veteran Superintendent Trewley to solve the murder of a pesky management consultant in the small English village of Tesbury.
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1993
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Detective Superintendent Trewley and his female partner, Inspector Stone, investigate a suspicious gas leak that killed the brilliant but unpleasant scientist in charge of a top-secret project.
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1994
(A blistering heatwave had tempers fraying all over Englan...)
A blistering heatwave had tempers fraying all over England, especially at the Allshire Adult Education Scheme's needlework class. Petty squabbles were brewing over available sewing machines - until one woman wound up dead, electrocuted by a sabotaged foot control. Now Detective Superintendent Trewley and Detective Sergeant Stone have to unravel a tangled thread of clues - and find a murderer cut from an entirely different cloth than anyone ever suspected.
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1996
(When the Allshire and National Bank is robbed, Detective ...)
When the Allshire and National Bank is robbed, Detective Superintendent Trewley and Detective Sergeant Stone can't wait to see the video that a documentary film crew shot while the thieves were making their getaway. But the film doesn't offer up any leads. Then, two local optical shops are broken into and an optician is kidnapped. The fact that the missing optician was an eyewitness to the bank robbery is a coincidence too strong for Trewley and Stone to overlook.
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1997
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When Dr. Radlett's lovely young wife in found murdered in the middle of a hedge maze during the village's annual summer fete, the newly formed detecting duo of Detective Superintendent Trewley and Detective Sergeant Stone must crack the case.
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1999
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Sally M. Jackson finds a man slumped on her front porch, who after gasping a few cryptic words, dies. With a housebound neighbour to offer tea and advice, and a fluffy black visitor for moral support, Sally steps in where the police don't bother to tread. And, when it's all over, someone deserves a medal.
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2003
Sarah Mason was born on December 18, 1949 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, to a former naval officer and schoolteacher Jack, and Margaret Mason an ex-naval officer.
Sarah J. Mason received a Master of Arts in English at St. Andrews University in Scotland in 1972.
Before Sarah Mason became a professional novelist, she worked as an office manager, temporary secretary, information officer and librarian, and library assistant. As an adult, she would move on to read the likes of Edmund Crispin’s “The Moving Toyshop”, which convinced her that she could write something similar. Her light bulb moment soon led her to her first idea of a novel that culminated in her debut novel “Lets Talk of Wills.” The novel was some type of whimsy novel written for entertainment that made mention of many of Shakespeare’s characters, without making them fundamental to the overall narrative. However, the novel received stinging criticism from reviewers for not being serious enough, but she never gave up, as she presented herself as a candidate to write the Miss Seeton novels a few years later.
Her first serious novel in 1985 was about the adventures of a 90-year-old character known as Kape Keepdown. Similar to the theme of crime that is evident in most of her later novels, the novel follows the same format where the lead character always seems to attract crime and ill fortune.
After the publication of her debut novel that brought her much critical acclaim and popularity, she would write a series of “Whodunits” as Hamilton Crane. One of her most popular series of novels was the Miss Seeton series that was created by Heron Carvic in the 1960s. After the death of the originator, the series was taken over by Hampton Charles who wrote three titles in 1990, before he passed the buck to Sarah Mason. Mason excels in portraying life in the English village while staying true to the ideals of the creator of the series Heron Carvic who ensured that the lead remained the centerpiece of each narrative.
In 1993, Sarah once again decided to branch out and write on her own as she launched the Trewley and Stone series under her own name. The lead character in the series is Detective Superintendent Trewley who works alongside Sergeant Stone a highly effective female partner. The sergeant who has a judo black belt, and was once a medical student, is a welcome contrast to the more dyed in the wool conventional English detective.
After proving her discipline with several bestsellers as Hamilton Crane, she was more than prepared to branch out on her own with the “Trewley & Stone” series. The fifteenth title in the Miss Seeton series was her last as Hamilton Crane as she moved away from mystery fiction to explore other genres. “Corpse in the Kitchen”, the first novel in the “Trewley & Stone” series introduces Detective Superintendent Trewley, a man with decades of experience in law enforcement. Teaming up with Stone, he solves a complicated murder mystery in a small village in Kent County England.
“In Murder in the Maze” Detective Superintendent Trewley and his sidekick detective Stone are the most unlikely of detectives to be paired up. They could not be any more different with Trewley an old-fashioned detective, while the younger Stone has several skills including medical, scientific and martial arts expertise. The two detectives know that the annual summer fete in Redingote, England where people have a good tie and cut lose may portent danger.
(Kate Keepdown, a nonagenarian widow who thrives on contro...)
1985(When the Allshire and National Bank is robbed, Detective ...)
1997(Detective Superintendent Trewley and his female partner, ...)
1994(Rookie detective Stone teams up with seasoned veteran Sup...)
1993(A blistering heatwave had tempers fraying all over Englan...)
1996(Sally M. Jackson finds a man slumped on her front porch, ...)
2003(When Dr. Radlett's lovely young wife in found murdered in...)
1999
Growing up as a child, Mason loved Agatha Christie mysteries and asserted that her plotting was among some of the best she had ever read.
Sarah J. Mason married a metallurgist and welding engineer William G. Welland on February 28, 1976.