Death in White Pyjamas & Death Knows No Calendar

It's another offering from the British Library Crime Classics reissues and there are two novellas in this volume. I have read others by John Bude and this has not supplanted Death on the Riviera or Death Makes a Prophet as my favourites of his. Death In White Pyjamas in which a woman is found......more

Neither of these stories was an unqualified success for me; in fact I didn't like the first one at all. Death in White Pajamas was much too light hearted for me. Like reading a P. G. Wodehouse classic with dead bodies; pretty much unsatisfactory because Bude didn't seem to be taking the story seriou......more

DEATH IN WHITE PYJAMAS La morte può colpire ovunque. Il giallo classico lo dimostra chiaramente, avendo reso proprio questo assioma per creare trame originali e collocate in ambientazioni insolite tali da affascinare e stupire il lettore: gli assassini sembrano avere una predilezione per il treno o p......more

In the first story a set designer is found dead near a lake dressed in white pyjamas and of course almost everybody has a sound reason to hate her. And " everybody " means a troupe of actors,a director and a wealthy supporter. The setting,a country house,and the colourful characters are part of the......more