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"Suddenly at His Residence by Christianna Brand" is a Fiction > Children/Young Adult title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (1.1 MB). Written by Christianna Brand. The book spans approximately 207 pages with 66,105 words. While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalising of the patriarch's will. Disgruntled by the behaviour and life choices of his heirs, March seems poised to deny all of them their inheritance and heads out to his lodge to make arrangements — only to be discovered dead the next morning with strychnine in his blood. With evidence at the crime scene suggesting that nobody could possibly have entered the lodge to murder March, Inspector Cockrill— the "Terror of Kent"— has the ...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction

QualityEPUB

Size1.1 MB

Pages207

ArchivedAug 24, 2026

Synopsis

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress. This is a country house mystery of the kind which enjoyed enormous popularity during the Twenties and Thirties, and Brand makes good use of a wide range of Golden Age tropes. Brand tells us that “Among the ten people whose names are here given prominence were found two victims and a murderer.” Even with this help, however, almost all readers will surely find her tantalizing puzzle difficult to solve. We are then presented wi