Charity Ends at Home (Flaxborough Novels)

Charity Ends at Home (Flaxborough Novels)

by Colin Watson (Author)

Synopsis

My Dear Friend . . . I am in great danger. The person whose loyal and faithful companion I have been . . . intends to have me done away with . . . When this unsigned letter is sent to three people in town none of them take it seriously. However, as with most events Inspector Purbright and the residents of Flaxborough realise that hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially when a woman is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Charity Ends at Home is the fifth novel in the Flaxborough series and was first published in 1968. Faber Finds will be reissuing all the Flaxborough novels in sequence. 'Arguably the best of comic crime writers.' Time Out

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Jul 2009

ISBN 10: 0571252877
ISBN 13: 9780571252879

Author Bio
Colin Watson was born in 1920. He worked as a journalist but was most famous for his twelve 'Flaxborough' novels, set in a small fictional town in England. Four of the 'Flaxborough' novels were adapted for television by the BBC under the series title Murder Most English and Watson's Detective Inspector Purbright remains one of the most intellectual detectives in the crime genre. Colin Watson died in 1983.