The amazing and terrible Miss Mapp queens it over society in her litte town of Tilling. Hilarious. Miss Mapp may be Benson's finest character, more potent than Lucia because she's so much more real. "I lingered at the window of the garden-room from which Miss Mapp so often and so ominously looked forth. To the left was the front of her house, straight ahead the steep cobbled way, with a glimpse of the High Street at the end, to the right the crooked chimney and the church.The street was populous with passengers, but search as I might, I could see none who ever so remotely resembled the objects of her vigilance."