Charity Ends at Home

Colin Watson

• 21 maart 2019
• 9781788420884

Samenvatting:

“I am in great danger…”

This letter is received by three eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable. So when one of the town’s charity workers is found the wrong way up in her pond, a connection seems likely.

Witty and wicked, Colin Watson’s tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast and laugh-out-loud wordplay.

“I am in great danger … I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty.”

This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable himself. So when one of the town’s most tireless charity workers, Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden pond, a connection seems likely.

Yet Detective Inspector Purbright finds the case does not quite add up and it takes the acute wits of his old friend, the ever-charming Miss Lucilla Teatime, as well as the more unwitting help of Mortimer Hive, indifferent private investigator and accomplished ladies’ man, to tease out the real murderer.

Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson’s tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay.