Old Mrs. Fitzgerald is a 1939 detective novel by the British writer Anne Hocking. It was the first novel in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector William Austen of Scotland Yard.Reilly p.794 Austen was one of a large number of investigators operating during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It was originally serialised in The Sunday Post. Reviewing the novel for The Observer Maurice Richardson wrote a favourable review.
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Bibliography Hubin, Allen J. 1981-1985 Supplement to Crime Fiction, 1749-1980. Garland Pub., 1988. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.