About the Author

Harriette Russell Campbell (1883-1950) was an American author who married a Scot and eventually settled in the U.K.. She wrote a series of novels featuring the detective Simon Brade. Later novels incorporated supernatural elements. Mystery of Saint's Island (1927) The String Glove Mystery (1936) The Porcelain Fish Mystery (1937) The Moor Fires Mystery (1938) Three Names for Murder (1940) Magic Makes Murder (1943) Crime in Crystal (1946) Murder Set to Music (1941)