Margaret Yorke

Margaret Yorke is one of the most popular British authors in the mystery genre. She was born Margaret Beda Larminie, but adopted the pseudonym Margaret Yorke so as not to be confused with a family member that was also an author. Yorke was born in Surrey in the UK though she lived most of her childhood in Dublin Ireland before going back home in 1937. When World War II broke out she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service where she worked as a driver. After the war she made history by working in the Christ Church library in Oxford, the first woman to ever do so. Margaret Yorke died in 2012 aged 88, having made a name for herself as a successful crime fiction author. She wrote her novels in the claustrophobic English tradition made popular by legends such as Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie.