Green for danger /
Brand, Christianna, 1907-1988,
Green for danger / Christianna Brand ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards. - xv, 262 pages ; 21 cm - British Library Crime Classics Inspector Cockrill series ; 2 . - British Library crime classics. .
Sequel to: Heads you lose. "Green for Danger was originally published in the UK in 1944 by The Bodley Head, London." -- Verso.
"It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill to the hospital. As an air raid detains the inspector for the night, the stage is set for a tense and claustrophobic investigation with a close-knit cast of suspects in this golden age masterclass of red herrings and tricky twists"--
9781728267661 1728267668
2022029629
Cockrill, Inspector (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--England--Kent--Fiction.
Kent (England)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Green for danger / Christianna Brand ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards. - xv, 262 pages ; 21 cm - British Library Crime Classics Inspector Cockrill series ; 2 . - British Library crime classics. .
Sequel to: Heads you lose. "Green for Danger was originally published in the UK in 1944 by The Bodley Head, London." -- Verso.
"It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill to the hospital. As an air raid detains the inspector for the night, the stage is set for a tense and claustrophobic investigation with a close-knit cast of suspects in this golden age masterclass of red herrings and tricky twists"--
9781728267661 1728267668
2022029629
Cockrill, Inspector (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--England--Kent--Fiction.
Kent (England)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.