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In 1955 Christianna Brand took Inspector Cockrill, and some other series characters, on holiday to the Island of San Juan el Pirata, where our dogged Inspector was almost thrown into jail for murder. It is now 1957 (a very important year as Paul McCartney met John Lennon, but I digress...) and we are back on the island along with Miss Hat (aka as Miss Harriet Cockrill, the Inspector's sister), Mr Cecil, a dress designer from previous books and Winsome (Winnie) Fulsome, a grown woman and relative
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What a disappointment! No murder, no Cockrill, and very little mystery. Such a shame that this series ended this way. I found this to be a lot of sillyness and just didn't hold my interest, hence a shortish book taking me 4 days to read it. I carried on reading just in case something interesting was going to happen, no such luck. I gave it 2 stars rather than 1, because I know this author did better.
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This would have gotten another star if I knew what to expect. I anticipated Inspector Cockerill investigating a murder. What I got was his sister, vacationing on the same fantastical island as the prior book, involved in illegal hijinks. Christianna Brand also wrote children's book (Nanny McPhee) and this one is a bit of a cross over.
I did get involved in the story and interested in the characters: Would Mr. Cecil come up with a new fashion? Winnie get her saint? Hat get her life back free of W ...more
I did get involved in the story and interested in the characters: Would Mr. Cecil come up with a new fashion? Winnie get her saint? Hat get her life back free of W ...more
This is not a murder mystery and Inspector Cockrill is nowhere present. Instead, this is the story of Juanita, El Margherita, who preached on top of a tea-table and after her death should have been canonized, if the religiously fervent people of San Juan el Pirata have their say so. Except that the brooding Grand Duke, El Exaltida, ruler of the island, is against it, thus begins the trouble. Despite the lack of mystery, the story is peopled with highly flamboyant characters and colorful depictio
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