From the rear cover
Literate and amusing, with exceptionally believable characters.?The New Yorker.
A free-spirited widow travels to the Riviera, where she meets a lord, accepts his proposal of marriage, and returns with him to England. Bunny, now the wife of Sir Charles d'Estray, is mistress of a vast estate that's fallen into decline. To rescue the property from bankruptcy, Bunny introduces the successful but distasteful measure of accepting paying guests.
In this atmosphere of deeply resented change, a poisonous plant has become the bitter brew of murder. And as a quarrelsome cast of d'Estrays, their servants and guests, and the mystified local police wander through a maze of mutual suspicion, Bunny finds herself not only the chief suspect but also a prime candidate for murder.
Told with a devastating detachment which is equally brutal toward the English gentry, its middle-class emulators, and upstart cockney detectives.?The New York Times.
Dover (2016) republication of Murder Included, Victor Gollancz, London, 1950.
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- Title The Taste of Murder
- Author Joanna Cannan
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications
- Date 2016-05
- ISBN 9780486806051 / 0486806057
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Widows
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016002897
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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