Scottish author Margot Bennett was born in 1912 and worked first first as a copywriter in the UK and Australia and then as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War before turning to writing. Her output in crime fiction was relatively small, yet successful: <i>The Man Who Didn't Fly</i> was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and was runner-up to Charlotte Armstrong's <i>A Dram of Poison</i> for Best Novel at the Edgars in 1956, and she won the Gold Dagger two years later in 1958 with <i>Someone from the Past</i>. She was also chosen to contribute a short story to the second CWA anthology, <i>Choice Of Weapons</i>, edited by Michael Gilbert. She died December 6, 1980.