Inspector Cockrill is called in to solve the murder of a most unpopular Belgian Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the ...
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Inspector Cockrill is called in to solve the murder of a most unpopular Belgian Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the house when Raoul was killed, but all were within a fog-choked London mile. Rosie calls in the brilliant Inspector Cockrill to clear the family's name, but what he finds is a twisted clan of seven people, each as likely to laugh at a murder as commit one.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 254 p. Gregg Press Mystery Fiction. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 79000661 Type of material Book Personal name Brand, Christianna, 1907-1988. Uniform title London particular Main title Fog of doubt / Christianna Brand [i.e. M. C. M. Lewis]. Published/Created Boston: Gregg Press, 1979, c1953. Description x, 254 p.; 21 cm. ISBN 0839825358 LC classification PZ3. L5878 Fo 1979 PR6023. E96 LC Subjects Cockrill, Inspector (Fictitious character)--Fiction. Police--England--Kent--Fiction. Kent (England)--Fiction. Form/Genre Detective and mystery stories. Notes Reprint of the ed. published by Scribner, New York, which was first published in London in 1952 under title: London particular. Series The Gregg Press mystery fiction series Gregg Press mystery fiction series. Dewey class no. 823/.9/12
