Three Inspector Cockrill Mysteries – Christianna Brand Free Audiobook

Written by Christianna Brand
Read by Derek Perkins, David Thorn, Robin Sachs
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged

This is not my rip. My thanks to peterg23.

All are unabridged, of CD like sound quality and encoded at 48kbps CBR Mono Fhg MP3.

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* Heads You Lose [1941], 5 hours 57 mins. Read by Derek Perkins.
Pigeonsford Estate is playing host to a group of close friends when one of their number, Grace Morland, is found dead in a ditch. The murder is made even more unusual by the fact that Grace was wearing her friend Francesca’s hat, the same hat that only the day before she’d claimed she wouldn’t be caught dead wearing. Inspector Cockrill has known most of the friends since they were children. They are all from good families and very close to one another. how, then, could one of them be a cold-blooded killer? And if one of them had murdered Grace which one was it and why had they done it?
First published in 1941 ‘Heads You Lose’ is a classic country house mystery that proves that in every friendship there are secrets, some of which are best left buried…

* The Crooked Wreath [1946], 7 hours 24 mins. (aka – Suddenly at His Residence) Read by David Thorn.
[1946] Sir Richard’s family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by changing his will every few months, depending on which of his strange brood he favors that moment. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet: complete disinheritance of all the wastrels who bear his name. But he never gets a chance to sign the papers—by morning, he’s dead. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Cockrill, the only detective clever enough to unravel the family’s tangle of jealousy and deceit. Each member had reason to kill Sir Richard, but which one plunged the syringe of poison into his heart? With a family this mad, nothing is as complicated as the truth….

* Fog of Doubt [1952], 7 hours 38 mins. (aka – London Particular) Read by Robin Sachs.
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…