- Inspector Cockrill (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Large type books
A murder takes place in a make-shift hospital during the second world war. Inspector Cockrill is asked to investigate even as the murderer strikes again. A nice twist in the end makes this worth a read.
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Classical in form, resolved, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Christianna Brand
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- ImPress Mystery, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Longmans
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780881846126
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“Joseph Higgins, postman, pushed his battered red bicycle up the long ascent that leads to Heron's Park, three miles out of Heronsford, in Kent.”
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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