Christianna Brand wrote Golden Age and mid-century mysteries known for intricate clues, small suspect groups and solutions that repeatedly alter the reader’s understanding of the crime. Green for Danger places Inspector Cockrill in a wartime hospital where an operating-theatre death may be murder, while Suddenly at His Residence, also published as The Crooked Wreath, turns a family gathering into a country-house puzzle. Death of Jezebel uses a theatrical pageant to construct an apparently impossible killing. Brand’s mysteries are compact, sharp and often mischievous, with suspicion moving rapidly between characters and fair-play clueing rewarded on rereading. Her work suits readers of Golden Age crime, medical mysteries, locked-room problems and classic whodunits with unusually complex solutions. Read more Less
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