Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

MA 's last completed novel, The Mind Readers, appeared in the USA (from Morrow 's instead of, as previously, Doubleday 's); English publication followed in late October.

She wrote this while still a student. Its germ lay in sessions of tumbler-turning at the family's Essex holiday home in summer 1921. In this form of spiritualism the assembled company rest one finger each...

The idea for this character shift came from her US publishers, Doubleday Doran . But the book was more fundamentally and crucially influenced by the collaboration of MA 's husband Pip Carter . She always...

She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family. The English publisher was Michael Joseph