The Spoilt Kill

Name: The Spoilt Kill
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Mary Kelly
ISBN: 9781407990200

Author: Mary Kelly

Series: British Library Crime Classics

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 01/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British

Synopsis

1950s Staffordshire. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson. Kelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for its impeccable sense of place and detail, and for the emotional weight of its central crime. The novel is part of a shift from the cosiness of crime novels before to mysteries characterised by their psychological interest and affecting realism. An influential classic.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Margarita on June 17, 2023

Сигурно за много криминални книги е писано, че не са като обикновените криминални истории, но тази наистина е такава. Най-малкото защото основното престъпление не е убийство, а индустриален шпионаж. В семейна фабрика за порцелан изтича ценна информация за новите дизайни, която конкурент-имитатор изп......more

Goodreads review by Julie on June 02, 2021

Just to prove that not all murder mysteries need to take place in a country house, or the excitement of London, this novel from 1961 is set in a pottery in Staffordshire. It is very educational in terms of the process of creating tableware from design to final sale, and the details are carefully wov......more