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Pamela Branch - Murder's Little Sister, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Murder's Little Sister

Av Pamela Branch

266 kr

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Bad advice can be fatal. As the advice columnist at You magazine, Enid Marley is everyone's favorite agony aunt, doling out prescriptions to the lovelorn and the weeping, to those consumed with jealousy and those crippled by bad breath. When it comes to her own problems, though, Enid's suggestions may be somewhat less helpful: Deal with a straying husband, she counsels herself, by faking your own suicide. Her efforts are not entirely successful, and in her absence, an unemployed ballet dancer is hired to fill her shoes. His notion of advice, however, does not sit well with the magazine's readership, and soon Enid's fans (long accustomed to her admonishment that they kick passivity in the teeth and rise against their oppressors) are threatening to storm the magazine and wreak vengeance. In the meantime, a notorious killer has gone walkabout, and a drunken reporter has taken up residence in the elevator. In short, it's business as usual for the writer known by her peers as "the funniest lady you've never met."
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-07
  • Mått: 139 x 203 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: Felony & Mayhem
  • ISBN: 9781631943744
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Pamela Branch was "the funniest lady you ever knew," according to well-known mystery writer Christianna Brand. Born in 1920 on her father's tea plantation in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), she was educated in England and dabbled in both art and acting before returning to Asia—first to her family in Ceylon and then on to India; for three years her home was a houseboat in Kashmir. She trekked in the Himalayas, trained racehorses, learned falconry, and became fluent in Urdu. Could there be better training for a mystery writer? Back in England for...five minutes(?), she married barrister Newton Branch, and the two moved to Cyprus, where they lived in a 12th-century monastery on the edge of a cliff. He wrote adventure stories, she wrote The Wooden Overcoat (1951), and then they moved on again. She produced her remaining three novels in Ireland, France, and London, respectively. Why, oh why, weren't there more? Branch died of cancer in 1967. Death, it seems, had the last laugh.

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“Relentlessly funny” —Evening Standard

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