Death At Cranes Court, Eilis Dillon
Death At Cranes Court, Eilis Dillon
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Death At Crane's Court

Author: Eilis Dillon

Narrator: Roger Clark

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/01/2019


Synopsis

Death is inevitable, or is it . . .

George Arrow, a good-looking, independently wealthy and single man of thirty-six, has just been diagnosed with a weak heart. A heart so weak, his doctor tells him, he must go to extraordinary lengths to avoid putting the slightest strain upon it. On his doctor's advice George packs up his life in Dublin, and boards a train to the Bay of Galway where he intends to live quietly in a hotel and await the inevitable end.

On the train he meets John Burden and as they chat, George realizes that his new acquaintance is an odious man. So it is with some alarm that he realizes the very unpleasant John Burden is, just like George himself, about to start a new chapter of his life at Crane's Court.

As that new life progresses, George realizes that all of his first impressions of Burden—that he is a selfish, nasty man—are entirely correct. And George is not the only person who thinks so.

So when Burden is found dead, stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife, it's not a matter of finding out why he was killed, but of narrowing down the field of people who wanted him gone.

Inspector Mike Kenny must identify the killer, but where to start?


About Eilis Dillon

Eilis Dillon, 1920-1994, was an Irish author of over fifty books. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and founded the Irish Children's Book Trust. In 1987 Dillon and her husband moved permanently to Dublin ,where she supported up and coming Irish authors; a prize in her memory is given annually as part of the Bisto Book of the Year Awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bev on May 24, 2013

According to the write-up on Eilis Dillon on the Rue Morgue Press site, I've read her three mystery novels out of order. It is suggested that the reader start with Death at Crane's Court move on to Sent to His Account and finish up with Death in the Quadrangle. I'm afraid that I'm just a rebel--I've......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 13, 2017

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Goodreads review by mrskelley on October 13, 2020

George Arrow is living the perfect bachelor life when, out of the blue he learns he that he has a life-threatening heart condition. In order to avoid any strain in his life he moves to Crane’s Court, a residential hotel on the Bay of Galway. En route to his new home, Arrow chances to meet the hotel’......more

Goodreads review by Barry on December 16, 2019

Excellent My first ever Eilis Dillon book featuring Inspector Kenny and I found it to be an excellent read. The book starts with George Arrow being informed by his Doctor that his heart is very weak and although still a young man he should spend his remaining days in an hotel called Cranes Court wher......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 06, 2025

Enjoyable, well written but I took issue with the way the mystery was depicted. I think it has more in common with the cozy mystery than any thriller, but truly it was not a mystery novel. It felt like a depiction of life at the hotel filled with eccentric’s where a murder had just happened to take......more