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    Fog of Doubt: An Inspector Cockrill Mystery
    Fog of Doubt: An Inspector Cockrill Mystery
    Fog of Doubt: An Inspector Cockrill Mystery
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    Fog of Doubt: An Inspector Cockrill Mystery

    Written by Christianna Brand

    Narrated by Robin Sachs

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    The Golden Age author of Green for Danger delivers "a mystery in the classic Christie-Carr-Queen manner . . . An outstanding tour de force" (The New York Times).

    Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the house when Raoul was killed, but all were within a fog-choked London mile. Rosie calls in the brilliant Inspector Cockrill to clear the family's name, but what he finds is a twisted clan of seven people, each as likely to laugh at a murder as commit one.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9781622310463
    Author

    Christianna Brand

    Christianna Brand (1907–1988) was one of the most popular authors of the Golden Age of British mystery writing. Born in Malaya and raised in India, Brand used her experience as a salesgirl as inspiration for her first novel, Death in High Heels, which she based on a fantasy of murdering an irritating coworker. The same year, she debuted her most famous character, Inspector Cockrill, whose adventures she followed until 1957. The film version of the second Cockrill mystery, Green for Danger, is considered one of the best-ever screen adaptations of a classic English mystery. Brand also found success writing children’s fiction. Her Nurse Matilda series, about a grotesque nanny who tames ill-behaved children, was adapted for the screen in 2005, as Nanny McPhee. Brand received Edgar Award nominations for the short stories “Twist for Twist” and “Poison in the Cup”, as well as one for her nonfiction work Heaven Knows Who. The author of more than two dozen novels, she died in 1988.

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    • 4/5
      Very good
      I can see why the author liked this best of her works. It is very intelligently constructed and perfectly written. Not just a very clever thriller but a remarkable novel.

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    • 5/5
      One of Christianna Brand’s best. I think she’s a very underrated author. Lots of twists and turns and some quirky characters. Excellent narration.
    • 3/5
      Not my favorite so far of this series. Not sure why the author says it’s hers. I found the characters unsympathetic & the plot a bit boring. I had to rewind several times because my mind had wandered & I had no idea what was going on at that point in the story.