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.
#GoldenAgeCrimeClub
'...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 🤩
#GoldenAgeCrimeClub @Mitch
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!
#BuddyRead
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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!
#marchmadness
Books that I hope to read/finish in March.
#literarycrew #nunlit #janeandtheexcellentreadalong #goldenagecrimeclub #diversecozy #sundaybuddyread #audible #gaslightmystery
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...
pickAn 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.
Death of Jezebel | 
