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Crime de Luxe: A Benvenuto Brown Mystery

Crime de Luxe: A Benvenuto Brown Mystery - Paperback

by Elizabeth Gill
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth GillPublish date:2017-02-06Pages:220
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781911579236ISBN-10:1911579231UPC:9781911579236Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:CrimeSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCJCSKPDBG

"Give me my rights or I will let them kill you. Think what has happened already--"

Benvenuto Brown is on the luxury liner Atalanta, heading for New York. His thoughts are on his forthcoming one-man exhibition, not murder - until a seemingly inoffensive old dear is found dead. Who could possibly have needed to murder poor Miss Smith? The nouveau riche Lord Stoke; the effortlessly alluring young widow Ann Stewart; Roger Morton-Blount, avowed Communist; or gorgeous Rutland King, screen star? Benvenuto Brown, in his final mystery, will need to sort muck from brass - and muddle from murder.

Crime de Luxe was originally published in 1933. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

"Brown is distinctly worth meeting ... The story, besides being sufficiently baffling, is very well written and introduces a group of unusually well-drawn characters." New York Times Book Review

"An altogether delightful treat" Brooklyn Eagle

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dean Street PressISBN-13:9781911579236ISBN-10:1911579231UPC:9781911579236Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:CrimeSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCJCSKPDBG
Gill, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Gill was born Elizabeth Joyce Copping in 1901, into a family including journalists, novelists and illustrators. She married for the first time, at the age of 19, to archaeologist Kenneth Codrington. Her second marriage, to artist Colin Gill, lasted until her death, at the age of only 32, in 1934, following complications from surgery. She is the author of three golden age mystery novels, The Crime Coast (aka Strange Holiday) (1931), What Dread Hand? (1932), and Crime de Luxe (1933), all featuring eccentric but perceptive artist-detective Benvenuto Brown.
Publisher: Dean Street Press

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