Murder Every Monday
Published on 9. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-63194-327-0 (ISBN)
Description
Clifford Flush, happily-if wrongly-acquitted of and semi-contentedly retired from the pursuit of murder, has not felt the need to off anyone in ages. Sure, he fled London when the return of the old urges left him open to a spot of blackmail, but he's been doing fine-thriving, in fact. He and the other members of the Asterisk Club, all murderers the law couldn't manage to hold, have turned the gory business of killing into a legitimate business venture: they've set up a homicide consultancy firm and are teaching discerning students the ropes (and guns, and getaways). Nice work if you can get it...or it is until one aspiring killer turns up dead on their very own premises. It's an intolerable embarrassment, and the culprit must be found out!
Reviews / Votes
"Nothing could be funnier" -The Sunday Times of London "Uproariously funny" -The Birmingham Post "Pamela Branch entertains from the first page to the last, pulling together every thread in a madcap universe only she could have created." -Sacramento Bee "Oh, so entertaining!" -Wolverhampton News "Wonderful characters...one can laugh for hours" -The Kensington News "Classed with Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham as one of the six best writers of detective fiction" -West London Times "The incomparable Pamela Branch!" -Carolyn G. HartMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 139 mm
Width: 204 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63194-327-0 (9781631943270)
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Person
Pamela Branch was "the funniest lady you ever knew," according to well-known mystery writer Christianna Brand. Born in 1920 on her father's tea plantation in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), she was educated in England and dabbled in both art and acting before returning to Asia-first to her family in Ceylon and then on to India; for three years her home was a houseboat in Kashmir. She trekked in the Himalayas, trained racehorses, learned falconry, and became fluent in Urdu. Could there be better training for a mystery writer? Back in England for...five minutes(?), she married barrister Newton Branch, and the two moved to Cyprus, where they lived in a 12th-century monastery on the edge of a cliff. He wrote adventure stories, she wrote The Wooden Overcoat (1951), and then they moved on again. She produced her remaining three novels in Ireland, France, and London, respectively. Why, oh why, weren't there more? Branch died of cancer in 1967. Death, it seems, had the last laugh.