Mollie Hardwick is the author of the Doran Fairweather series: Malice Domestic, Parsons Pleasure, Uneaseful Death, The Bandersnatch, Perish in July, and The Dreaming Damozel. She is also well known as the author of historical novels, especially Upstairs, Downstairs, which was made into a very popular BBC television series. She lives in London, England.