An Honest Thief

It is a delicious literary irony that Mary E Penn, a writer of ghost, crime and mystery short stories during the Victorian era, is a complete enigma.Al that remain of her life are the 29 or so stories that were published or attributed to her.‘In the Mist’ is set in the county of Cornwall. When two lovers jealously quarrel the result appears to end in murder. But what exactly did happen…..?