Margot Arnold


Petronelle Marguerite Mary Cook, better known by the pseudonym of Margot Arnold, was a British-born American mystery fiction novelist.

Early life and career

She was born in May 1925 in Devonport, Devon. She received a B.A. with a Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology in 1947, and an M.A. in 1950 from Oxford University.
As a mystery writer, she was best known as the creator of the Dr. Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower series, about an anthropologist and an archeologist based at Oxford University, England.

Later life and death

Arnold was a long-time resident of Hyannis, Massachusetts. She died in New York City, New York in September 2016 at the age of 91.

List of Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower novels in order

  1. Exit Actors, Dying
  2. Zadok's Treasure
  3. The Cape Cod Caper
  4. Death of a Voodoo Doll
  5. Death on the Dragon's Tongue
  6. Lament for a Lady Laird
  7. The Menehune Murders
  8. Toby's Folly
  9. The Catacomb Conspiracy
  10. The Cape Cod Conundrum
  11. Dirge for a Dorset Druid
  12. The Midas Murders

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