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Perks, Matilda. Matilda Perks was created by R.C. Woodthorpe (Nicholas Slade) and appeared in Death in a Little Town (1934) and The Shadow on the Downs (1935).

Matilda Perks is a Spinster Detective. She is a former schoolteacher living in Sussex, England. She is plump, has a mustache and a hooked nose, and is sharp-tongued, in addition to being an admirer of Hitler and contemptuous of rural English. She is quick-witted and insightful as a detective.

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