Christianna Brand - Böcker

Klaus Manns roman Mefisto utkom på tyska 1936, tre år efter att författaren lämnat Tyskland för exil i Holland och senare USA. Hans debutbok från 1925 hade då bränts på bål av nazisterna, och hans förre svåger, skådespelaren Gustaf Gründgens, som ...

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"Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist." - The Daily Telegraph While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent...

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Girls Together magazine agony-aunt 'Mrs Friendly-wise', aka Katinka Jones, finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine's regular correspondents, 'Amista'. But reaching the address a strange h...

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"A very neat version of the 'sealed room' mystery ... provides [Miss Brand] with excellent opportunities to indulge her sense of character and her pleasantly malicious wit, as well as her gift for posing an ingenious problem." - Times Literary Sup...

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"You have to reach for the greatest of the Great Names (Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen) to find Christianna Brand's rivals in the subtleties of the trade." - Anthony Boucher in the New York Times Night falls in the capital, and a...

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It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering will turn out to be a murderer in a year's time. When ...

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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since ...

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This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centurie...

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Nyskrivet förord av kritikern Jens Christian Brandt till Snön var smutsig av Georges Simenon. Om Snön var smutsig: Frank Friedmaier bor på tredje våningen i ett hyreshus i en icke namngiven stad i ett land ockuperat av främmande makt. Frank bor ho...

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This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centurie...

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This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.Mystery stories have been around for centuries...

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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 tim...

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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...

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It's a big day at Christophe et Cie, a small couture house off Regent Street. Mr Bevan will announce which of his staff he is sending to France to be general manager of a new branch in Deauville. Will it be the talented and elegant Miss Doon or th...

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The pursuit of fashion is a matter of life and death in the debut novel from Christianna Brand, one of the Queens of Golden Age crime fiction. Life in the West End dress shop Christophe et Cie is hard enough with all the pressures of delivering Fr...

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Inspector Cockrill has finally booked a holiday, destined for the Mediterranean with a motley crew of fellow vacationers. By the time they have reached the island of San Juan el Pirata, the tour group is a bubbling pot of rivalries and tension bet...

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Once upon a time there was a huge family of children, and they were terribly, terribly naughty ? Mr and Mrs Brown thought that their children had been cured of naughtiness by the inimitable, magical Nurse Matilda. But now, with Nurse Matilda gone,...

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Once upon a time there was a huge family of children, and they were terribly, terribly naughty ? The Brown children are back, and they''re naughtier than ever! This time, they have feigned illness and been taken to hospital ? but with the no-nonse...

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Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty So begins Nurse Matilda, the first of three books about the no-nonsense nanny who uses magic to rein in the mischievous children in her charge and chang...

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