The Golden Pebble

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The Golden Pebble is a thriller by the Scottish author Margot Bennett, published in 1948.

Plot[]

Mark Rector is an entomologist who specializes in weevils. His sedate and dull life is unexpectedly disrupted when he travels to a remote village in Cornwall from where his uncle once mysteriously received a piece of gold.^[1]

Reviews[]

The Times Literary Supplement included the book in their issue of 6 December 1947, writing Mrs Bennett's first non detective novel deals with a gold rush in Cornwall- and human nature in the raw.^[2]

Notes[]

• The book originally cost eight shillings and sixpence.
• The book, like most of Bennett's other works, is no longer in print.
• This was the last instance that Bennett's work was published by Nicholson & Watson. Most of her other works were published by Eyre and Spottiswoode.

References[]

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