Margot Neville was the pseudonym of two sisters, Margot Goyder (1903-1975) and Anne Neville Goyder Joske (1893-1966), Australian writers born in Melbourne. The sisters collaborated closely, writing together ‘word by word’, Margot then typing the manuscript. In all they wrote 22 crime novels, mostly police procedurals set in Sydney, with detectives Grogan and Manning.

Bibliography

Lena Hates Men (1943) aka Murder in Rockwater

Murder and Gardenias (1946)

Murder in A Blue Moon (1948)

Murder of A Nymph (1949)

Come, Thick Night (1951) aka Divining Rod For Murder

Murder Before Marriage (1951)

The Seagull Said Murder (1952)

Murder of the Well Beloved (1953)

Murder and Poor Jenny (1954)

The Hateful Voyage (1956)

Murder of Olympia (1956)

Murder To Welcome Her (1957)

The Flame of Murder (1958)

Sweet Night For Murder (1959)

Confession of Murder (1960)

Murder Beyond the Pale (1961)

Drop Dead (1962)

Come See Me Die (1963)

My Bad Boy (1964)

Ladies in the Dark (1965)

Head on the Sill (1966)