

I read this for the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub March pick. I missed the discussion because I‘m cursed to work every Sunday book club. The characters were just awful and the plot was the worst. 👎🏻
I read this for the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub March pick. I missed the discussion because I‘m cursed to work every Sunday book club. The characters were just awful and the plot was the worst. 👎🏻
I found the plot to be convoluted in a rather unbelievable way but I really liked the writing style and the characters. Very grateful to @mitch and #goldenagecrimeclub for introducing me to this author and will definitely read more of her books.
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A clever, humorous and somewhat ghastly take on the locked-room mystery. The players/suspects are all quite ridiculous and unlikable, but that is part of the fun. Red herrings and false confessions abound. I‘d be interested to try another Brand sometime. Maybe Green for Danger next?
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Final thoughts - ideas / themes were not yet touched on………
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Brand characters all seem ‘wounded‘ in some way. Did that make them likeable / relatable / enjoyable to spend time with??? I did really like the relationship between the 2 detectives - how did you find the characters ?
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Brand sets this book up as a type of ‘locked room mystery‘ and then shows us lots of different ways it could have been committed throwing in also lots of false confessions! Did you like this format? Was there a ‘solution‘ you favoured or thought she‘d missed out!
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The prologue sets up the motive for murder on the first few pages - a revenge killing linked to a tragedy that happened in Burma. Did you like this structure???
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Yeah - it‘s that time of the month again! Looking forward to chatting about this ‘new to me author” with you all. As always let‘s kick off the discussion with initial impressions, likes / dislikes, experience of the author etc…..
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A classic locked room mystery set in London at the end of the‘40s. It had its eccentricities in style, but was satisfying. During an amateur performance, a player is murdered in full view of the audience, but how and by whom? And as the introduction states, the book is a marvelous look at a vanished time.
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Read for the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub ….it was ok. I had trouble in the beginning with the style and the characters, but the second half picked up a bit.
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This was my first Christianna Brand & I thoroughly enjoyed it. Snarky humour, lots of witticisms, unlikeable characters losing their shit—all of this combined is apparently my cup of tea. I didn't quite see the solution coming, although I was feeling pretty smug with myself for thinking I had it figured out with one of the false solutions 😂 The depiction of the pageant & the nuttiness on display were very entertaining. #GoldenAgeCrimeClub @Mitch
Morning coffee read. I think I may have figured this out. 🧐 I‘m either disappointed or very impressed with myself. #goldenagecrimeclub 🕵️♀️
I was interested to learn that Brand was born in colonial Malaya. And I appreciate the gentle skewering of Isabel of someone who's so narcissistic and provincial and so keeps saying "out there in the Malay or wherever it was" because "in the Malay" is genuinely too funny.
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'...Oh, by the way, Sergeant, this is Inspector Cockrill,
Kent police.'
Sergeant Bedd's large face took on a look of mingled excitement and awe.
'Good lord, sir: not Inspector Cockril? Not that affair of the sanded paths down at Swansmere?
And them decapitations at Pigeonsford?'
Check out my library's reserve stock copy c.1976 🤩
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Lovely start to a snow day: blueberry scone, creme fraiche, cinnamon coffee, Jezebel. Still snowing outside! #goldenagecrimeclub
Repost for @Mitch:
On the last Sunday of every month the #goldenagecrimeclub meet to talk about a book. Please do come and join us if you‘d like. This month we‘re discussing a seemingly impossible crime written by Christianna Brand, first published in 1949 and described as a fiendishly constructed puzzle with dumbfounding acts of misdirection!
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On the last Sunday of every month the #goldenagecrimeclub meet to talk about a book. Please do come and join us if you‘d like. This month we‘re discussing a seemingly impossible crime written by Christianna Brand, first published in 1949 and described as a fiendishly constructed puzzle with dumbfounding acts of misdirection!
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Books that I hope to read/finish in March.
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Just a reminder for next month #goldenagecrimeclub
We‘re reading Death of Jezebel- it is one of those locked room / impossible crimes type novels written by a member of the Detection Club! Looking forward to chatting with you all on the last a Sunday of the month. Happy reading!
The intro makes this sound pretty amazing, so let's see! I haven't read anything by Brand before. So far I'm a bit intrigued, but wondering if I'd be more excited if I'd read her other books and met these two detectives before...
An impressive read, almost mathematical in plotting, with red herrings eating red herrings until the big reveal in the final chapter. Christianna Brand is also the author of the Nanny McPhee/Nurse Matilda books. Highly recommended, as is her clever & twisty romance Court of Foxes.