Miss Seeton sees a stabbing and helps the police to investigate. She has well defined opinions about everything. It is a old style mystery.

Honestly, the real deal in the realm of older British lady sleuths (or any other detective realm) is Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
But if you wish for a lighter mystery read with the environment populated with charming characters of traditional (whatever that means :)) British village/small town, this one might be a quite good supplement. Mostly because behind all the old-school (and a bit clichey) charm lies some real compassion and relations to the people.

Emily Seeton, aka Miss Seeton, Miss Ess, or the Battling Brolly, is the fictional heroine in a series of British cosy mystery novels written in part by Heron Carvic; then following Carvic's death, by Roy Peter Martin, writing as Hampton Charles (I guess preferring to focus more on his own "The Superintendent Otani Mysteries" under the name of James Melville); then picked by Sarah J. Mason (writing as Hamilton Crane), before branching out on her own with the “Trewley & Stone” series .

In each book, we find Miss Seeton using her skills as an art teach as she randomly draws psychologically and, perhaps, psychically informative sketches that allow Inspector Delphick of the Yard, and his assistant Bob Ranger, to solve the crime. The primary storyline is the seemingly naive and oblivious Miss Seeton finding herself in awkward situations, then managing to provide enough random clues and insights for the detectives to use to solve these mysteries.

I have read a number of titles in the series (of which there are 23 - 22 and a prequel). The character of Miss Seeton is standard cosy fare (elderly spinster involved in solving crimes); the villagers, distinctly unique (reference "The Nuts"); the crimes predominantly local with a few trips further afield; the community, typically English of the 1950s style. Whilst the first five stories were original and charming, as the series goes on, it does get a bit repetitive, and with so much crime in one sleepy village, I'm surprised Scotland yard has opened a branch there! In the end, Miss Seeton comes across as a poor man's Miss Marple crossed with Inspector Clouseau as the final author, I feel, struggles to provide anything original with which to involve our heroine.

This is a best-in-its-category English murder mystery; it is funny, interesting, and hard to put down. I will be reading many more in the Miss Seeton series!

This is my second Miss Seeton book, but I don't think it will be my last. The characters are fun and memorable and the story moves at a good pace. Though I guessed at the ending, I didn't mind, because Miss Seeton is such a great character!