Christianna Brand

In the English countryside, one of the well-mannered guests at Pigeonsford Estate may be a murderer in this series debut by an Edgar Award-nominated author....

In this story, a woman receives a letter from an editor requesting a submission for an anthology of horror stories. Keen to provide an original piece, she plans to kill her sister for the perfect plot....

Once, Nurse Matilda made Mr and Mrs Brown's children good and well-behaved, but now they are naughty again.

The Brown children have feigned illness and been taken to hospital but with Nurse Matilda running the show they have little chance of keeping up their antics for long....

The most unimaginable and relentless bouts of mischief abound as the Brown children turn their minds to breaking all the rules....

Sir Richard's family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet. But he never gets a chance to sign the papers....

Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before....

As German V-1 rockets rain down on the English countryside, the men and women of the military hospitals fight to stay calm. The morning after a raid, Doctor Barnes prepares for a routine surgery to repair a postman's broken leg. But with general anesthesia, there is always danger....

An island republic goes to insane lengths to canonize its most famous resident....

Ever since she drove her best friend's fiance to kill himself, Isabel Drew has been nicknamed Jezebel. She is domineering, arrogant, vain—and beautiful enough to get away with it. She is starring as a princess in a medieval pageant when her past catches up to her....

The Great Detective recounts the tale of an old case to Inspector Cockrill, which, solved too late, failed to bring about a conviction. But Cockrill draws his own conclusions on the case...

Inspector Cockrill's dull vacation is jolted by a Mediterranean murder....