Cat & Mouse

An evocative, British-set murder mystery from the 1950s: a golden age of British crime writing.
A page-turning Welsh-set, Gothic melodrama written with playful wit and lurid verve by acclaimed author Christianna Brand, the pen name of Mary Christianna Milne (1907-88), first published in 1950. A visit to Swansea prompts a spur-of-the-moment visit to a remote, mountain-top house. ‘Girls Together’ magazine’s resident Agony Aunt Katinka Jones finds all is not what it seems when she tries to pay a call on one of her regular correspondents, only to discover that no-one has heard of her pen pal, the mysterious ‘Amista’. The house, cat and even the handsome master of the house, Carleon, all match the descriptions in Amista’s letters and yet who can her correspondent be? As more mysteries emerge, can Katinka and Detective Inspector Chucky untangle the lies in this twisting story, full of dramatic twists and bombshell clues?

Paperback
19 x 13cm
255 pages
FSC accredited paper
Originally published in 1950, text reflects attitudes of the time