Elizabeth Eyre is a pseudonym used by the authors Jill Staynes (1927–2013)[1] and Margaret Storey (born c. 1927) for their Sigismondo series of novels.
From the dust jacket of Bravo for the Bride (1994): Elizabeth Eyre is the pseudonym of Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey.
They were pupils at the same school where they invented bizarre characters and exchanged serial episodes about them.
They have both written stories for children, and together created the highly praised Superintendent Bone modern detective novels as well as this series of Italian Renaissance whodunits.The Eyre novels are marked by colourful characters and an atmospheric treatment of the Italian Renaissance setting.
[citation needed] The Sigismondo series received a positive response from many reviewers when it was released, with good reviews appearing in the Sunday Express (London) and the Weekend Telegraph (London), some of which were reprinted on the dust jackets of the later volumes in the series.