Heads You Lose (novel)
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Author | Christianna Brand |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Inspector Cockrill |
Genre | Crime |
Publisher | The Bodley Head |
Publication date | 1941 |
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Followed by | Green for Danger |
Heads You Lose is a 1941 crime mystery novel by the British writer Christianna Brand.[1] It was her second novel following her successful debut Death in High Heels and the first to feature Inspector Cockrill of the Kent Police Force.
Synopsis[]
Cockrill is called in to a country house in wartime Britain where two murders are committed amongst several guests of the local squire.
References[]
- ^ Walton p.72
Bibliography[]
- Walton, Samantha. Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Categories:
- 1941 British novels
- Novels by Christianna Brand
- British crime novels
- Novels set in England
- British detective novels
- The Bodley Head books
- 1940s novel stubs