Curiosity Killed the Cat

Little Biggling: a village that had been taken over by The Ministry of Scientific Research during the Second World War ... and after the War the Ministry had stayed on, much to the annoyance of several of the residents. However, being annoyed was one thing, being murdered quite another. It seemed that one of members of the Civil Service billeted in the village had been a little too curious about everybody and everything in Little Biggling, and there was a terrible price to pay. Inspector Cam found that he wasn't getting much help in finding the person who had most to hide... First published in 1949 this was the first of three detective thrillers penned by Joan Cockin, otherwise Edith Joan Burbidge Macintosh, PhD, CBE. Brought up in America, educated at Oxford, she was a British diplomat and part of the UK delegation at the first NATO and Council of Europe conferences; married in India - her career cut short, as was the rule for women, by marriage there. Then, she had a second career as a consumer champion, cofounding the National and the Scottish Consumer Councils, acting as Legal Ombudsman for Scotland, and founding the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau, while serving on a Royal Commission.