Black Dagger Crime S.
5 total works
First published in 1950 Cat and Mouse was Christianna Brand's eighth novel, and a classic thriller. Tinka Jones needs to escape her London life and her job as a journalist. She decides to visit Amista, a friend she has been writing to for some time. Amista lives in an isolated house in the Welsh hills and Tinka looks forward to peace and tranquillity. However, when she arrives in Wales she finds the locals have never heard of Amista. Tinka begins to question everything she thought she knew. Who has been writing her letters if Amista doesn't exist, and if she does exist then where is she? Stuck in a desolate house on the rain-swept hills she encounters unsettling and bizarre visitations as she sets out to unearth the mystery that surrounds Amista and the house - with chilling consequences.
Young Mr. Chatsworth of Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a murder in a dress shop. What he finds are five delectable young women as suspects. He promptly loses his heart to one of them and is soon matching wits with all five as they band together to protect themselves.
Pigeonsford Estate is playing host to a group of close friends when one of their member, Grace Morland, is found dead in a ditch. The murder is made even more unusual by the fact that Grace was wearing her friend Francesca's hat, the same hat that only the day before she'd claimed she wouldn't be caught dead wearing. Inspector Cockrill has known most of the friends since they were children. They are all from good families and very close to one another; how, then, could one of them be a cold-blooded killer? And if one of them had murdered Grace which one was it and why had they done it? First published in 1941 Heads You Lose is a classic country house mystery that proves that in every friendship there are secrets, some of which are best left buried.
This fast-paced mystery features Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police, who is taking his vacation on an island off the coast of Italy. When a fellow tourist is stabbed to death, the Inspector's dim view of Latin culture reaches a new low as he assists the inept local authorities.