C. S. Forester

Marjorie had never seen a dead body until she got home one tranquil summer evening and found her sister Dot lying on the kitchen floor in a pretty dress, with her head in the oven. She looked peaceful, as if she was asleep. Their mother suspects, however, that Dot's death was far from natural.

This omnibus edition contains 'Hornblower and the 'Atropos', 'The Happy Return' and 'A Ship of the Line'.