- Inspector Cockrill (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
>Night falls in London, and a ‘London particular’ pea-souper fog envelops the city. In Maida Vale, Rose and her family doctor Tedwards race through the dark after a man has telephoned claiming that he has been struck by an assailant in Rose’s house.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Christianna Brand
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Fayard, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Sourcebooks, Incorporated
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781480415911
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- Inspector Cockrill (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Cockrill, inspector (fictitious character), fiction
- England, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- English fiction
- Texts
- London (england), fiction
- English literature
“THE dank grey fog was like an army blanket, held pressed against the windows of the car.”
Christianna Brand was born Mary Christianna Milne in Malaya but spent most of her childhood in England and India. She had a number of different occupations, including model, dancer, shop assistant and governess. Brand also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Ann Ashe, Annabel Jones, Mary Brand, Mary Roland, and China Thompson. Christianna Brand served as chair of the Crime Writers' Association from 1972 to 1973. (Wikipedia)
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