Sabine Durrant is a former assistant editor of The Guardian and a former literary editor at The Sunday Times whose feature writing has appeared in numerous British national newspapers and magazines. She is currently a magazine profile writer for The Sunday Telegraph and a contributor to The Guardian's family section.

Представляем сборник произведений детективного жанра от лучшей половины человечества, от женщин. Они, наряду с мужчинами, много работают в этом жанре и представлены весьма разнообразно. Достаточно вспомнить Агату Кристи, Патрицию Хайсмит, Рут Рэнделл, Патрисию Корнуэлл, Дороти Ли Сэйерс и других мастеров детектива, чтобы согласиться с этим утверждением.

Prather was born in Santa Ana, California and spent a year at Riverside Junior College (now Riverside Community College). He served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, from 1942 through the end of the war, in 1945. That year he married Tina Hager and began working as a civilian chief clerk of surplus property at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. He left that job to become a full-time writer in 1949. The first Shell Scott mystery, Case of the Vanishing Beauty, was published in 1950. It would be the start of a long series that numbered more than three dozen titles featuring the Shell Scott character.