Death of My Aunt (Malcolm Warren mysteries) - Softcover

Kitchin, C. H. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571252052 ISBN 13: 9780571252053

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2009

Synopsis

Malcolm Warren, a young but valetudinarian stockbroker, is looking forward to a dull weekend when a telegram summons him to stay with his capricious old Aunt Catherine, who has shocked the family by marrying Hannibal Cartwright, a muscular garage owner many years her junior. Gleeful at the prospect of profit, Malcolm hurries to her bedside. But when his aunt resorts to her bottle labelled 'Le Secret de Venus' he finds that, instead of a gilt-edged portfolio, he is landed with a file of family skeletons. The resulting saga is retailed with a dry humour that reads as well now as it did on first publication in 1929. 'Kitchin's knowledge of the crevices of human nature lifts his crime fiction out of the category of puzzledom and into the realm of the detective novel. He was, in short, ahead of his day.' H. R. F. Keating

About this title

About the Author:

C. H. B. Kitchin was born in Yorkshire in 1895. He read classics at Exeter College, Oxford and, after serving in France during the First World War, was called to the Bar in 1924. His novels include Streamers Waving (1925), Crime at Christmas (1934) and A Short Walk in Williams Park (1971), which was published after his death in 1967.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571252052
• ISBN 13: 9780571252053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252