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Quarles opened an office in Trafalgar Square

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Chain of Witnesses The Cases of Miss Phipps Viets Quarles opened an office inPhyllis Bentley, OBE (1894 1977) was a major regional novelist of her native Yorkshire. In the 1930's she began to write detective short stories, featuring a spinster detective novelist, Miss Phipps. In the first story she meets a young police officer on a train; he is studying his papers to solve a crime; she is suffering from writer's block. Their papers become mixed together, and Miss Phipps, in typical armchair detective form, solves the crime for