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Author Kelly, Mary, 1927-2017, author.

Title The spoilt kill / Mary Kelly ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards.

Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2021]
©1961

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  M KELLY, M.    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M KELLY, M.    Check Shelf
Description 235 pages ; 21 cm.
Series British library crime classics
British Library crime classics.
Summary "Staffordshire in the 1950s. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Staffordshire, the 1950s. With its designed leaked to international competition and its prices undercut, Inspector Hedley Nicholson is tasked with finding the culprit of the suspected sabotage. When a body is found in the clay tanks at the pottery company, was the death an accident or murder? -- adapted from back cover
Subject Staffordshire (England) -- Fiction.
Pottery industry -- Fiction.
Staffordshire pottery -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
Pottery industry. (OCoLC)fst01073639
England -- Staffordshire. (OCoLC)fst01202749
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Detective and mystery fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Kelly, Mary, The spoilt kill Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, 2020. 9781728219998 (DLC) 2020020884
ISBN 9781728219974 (trade paperback)
1728219973 (trade paperback)
9781728219998 (adobe pdf)
9781728219981 (epub)
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