A Flaxborough Mystery: Coffin, Scarcely Used (Paperback)

from Dokfintong

It's great to start a new series by reading the first book and Farrago has made this possible by releasing the first three Flaxborough mysteries one by one from the beginning. I had not met Colin Watson and Detective Inspector Purbright before and reading this book was a treat. Wikipedia and othe...

from lahochstetler

Two funerals, six months apart, are linked in ways nobody expects. The funerals are for next-door neighbors, one a local official, one a newspaper publisher. DI Walter Purbright is investigating. He discovers odd classified ads published in the local newspaper, which appear to be the key to somet...

from bohemima

An entertaining and humorous mystery from the mid-twentieth century. The first death seems reasonable p, the second...not quite as straightforward. And then we're running down the path of crazy along with Inspector Purbright and Sergeant Love, trying to find out what on earth is happening in Flax...

from Bonnie.Franks

I received this book from NetGalley and I would like to thank them and the publisher. It has been a number of years since I have read what I would consider to be just a nice, normal, murder mystery. I'm not saying I don't enjoy the current trend of psychological thriller, because I surely do. Thi...

from smik

Mr. Harold Carobleat had "for some time been the last twig on the dead trunk of his ancestry". Despite his eminent position in the town of Flaxborough the funeral of Three-Car-Carobleat was poorly attended - the minister, only 4 or 5 immediate friends, and his grieving widow. His business establi...