Tour de Force

Christianna Brand, Martin Edwards

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British Library
08 October 2024

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: British Library Crime Classics

""Written with much ingenuity, gaiety of colour and bright, joyful malice ... Christianna Brand's readers are also taken on holiday in Tour de Force.""

Julian Symons in the Times Literary Supplement, 1955

Inspector Cockrill has finally booked a holiday, destined for a Mediterranean tour with a motley crew of fellow vacationers. By the time they have reached the island of San Juan el Pirata off the Italian coast, the tour group is a bubbling pot of rivalries and tension between friends and lovers, threatening to boil over into violence in the scorching summer heat.

As six holidaymakers relax at the beach under Cockrill's watch, the seventh of their number is slain in the hotel. Believing that the murderer must have been one of the beachgoers, Cockrill faces what looks like an impossible puzzle

one that must be solved before the island's own police force delivers the wrong suspect to their doom.

First published in 1955, Brand's classic novel skewers the package holiday experience while unravelling one of the most audacious and devilish mysteries in the history of the genre.

By: Christianna Brand
Introduction by: Martin Edwards
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 128
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712355360
ISBN 10: 0712355367
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

**Christianna Brand **(19071988) was born in British Malaya and was one of the most celebrated crime writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her mystery novels featuring Inspector Cockrill along with the Nurse Matilda books for children, which were adapted for screen as Nanny McPhee. The Cockrill novels Green for Danger, Death of Jezebel and Suddenly at His Residence have been published as British Library Crime Classics.

Reviews for Tour de Force

“Written with much ingenuity, gaiety of colour and bright, joyful malice ... Christianna Brand’s readers are also taken on holiday in Tour de Force.” – Julian Symons in the Times Literary Supplement, 1955