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The Taste of Murder
"Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters." ― The New Yorker.
A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests.
In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder.
"Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives." ― The New York Times.
A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests.
In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder.
"Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives." ― The New York Times.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Publish Date: May 18th, 2016
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: First Edition, - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.40in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780486806051
- Categories: • Literary• Mystery & Detective - General• Mystery & Detective - Cozy - General
About the Author
In addition to detective novels, Joanna Maxwell Cannan (1896-1961) wrote a series of children's books about horses and riding. The daughter of an Oxford dean, Cannan served as a nurse during World War I, married one of her soldier patients, and produced nearly a book a year from the 1920s onward.