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.