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Answer in the Negative - Henrietta Hamilton

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Agora Books has put focus on uncrowned, female  writers from The Golden Age of Detective Fiction. This resulted in me getting Answer in the Negative to review. Henrietta Hamilton was an English writer known for her stories about amateur sleuths Sally and Johnny Helder. I haven’t been able to find much about the writer but she is the author of: The Two Hundred Ghosts (1956) Death at One Blow (1957) Answer in the Negative (1959) A Night to Die (1959) In Answer in the Negative the archive assistant at National Press Archives - Frank Morningside - has been the receiver of poison pen letters and practical jokes. At first not so bad, but it evolves and gets nasty. That makes his superior Toby call on his friends for help. His friends are the married couple and amateur sleuths Sally and Johnny Helder. Johnny reluctantly offers to help and they start inquiries at the archive pretending to be researchers. While investigating two murders take place before Johnny su