Charity Ends at Home
Colin Watson
My Dear Friend ... I am in great danger. The person whose loyal and faithful companion I have been ... intends to have me done away with ...
When this unsigned letter is sent to three people in town none of them takes it seriously. However, as with most events Inspector Purbright and the residents of Flaxborough realise that hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially when a woman is found dead in suspicious circumstances.
Charity Ends at Home
is the fifth novel in the Flaxborough series and was first published in 1968. Faber Finds will be reissuing all the Flaxborough novels in sequence.
‘Arguably the best of comic crime writers.’ Time Out
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Fiction
Sub-categories:
Crime & Thrillers
Places:
Flaxborough
Genres & Themes:
Faber Finds;
Detectives;
Murder Mystery
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Right at the bottom of the column, it was.
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