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Death of Jezebel

Christianna Brand

Start date: August 15, 2020

Finish date: September 9, 2020

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Why we're reading this: Members have enjoyed previous Christianna Brand books, so we are now reading the next in the Inspector Co…more
[close] Members have enjoyed previous Christianna Brand books, so we are now reading the next in the Inspector Cockrill series.

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Nov 09, 2021 Lady Wesley rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: listened, mystery-golden-age-or-similar

This book is very difficult for me to rate. On one hand, it is a cracking-good puzzle, but on the other hand, the mostly unlikeable characters and the several false confessions left me a bit bored. And confused. Even now, I am still not sure who was really who.

I suspect that this is a book better read than listened to, although the narration by Derek Perkins was excellent. I wish now that I had highlights to go back and look at. I still don’t know how Inspector Cockerill figured it all out. Per ...more

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Jan 10, 2025 Layton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is a truly exceptional impossible crime novel, in that the perpetrator is rather uninteresting but the way they commit the crime left my jaw on the floor. Absolutely flabbergasted, a work of crime-writing genius.

Just like Green for Danger, I found myself enjoying Brand’s voice throughout this, feeling like I was chatting with a gossipy granny with a dark sense of humor and a twinkle in her eye.

An easy 5 stars.

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