Three Sisters Flew Home by Mary Fitt
When Claribel organizes a 'murder game' at her annual New Year's Eve party, all sorts of unexpected things occur. An unusual 1936 crime novel by the incomparable Mary Fitt.Such exquisite writing..assured beauty of the style....reading is sheer luxury
* The Observer *"A first novel, quite out of the ordinary...an entirely unconventional, even fantastic, murder story."
* Books of the Month, 1936 *Not straight mystery, as the story ends with the death -- and the reader knows who did the dastardly (?) deed. Centers around woman artist who collects for a New Year's party all her enemies, male and female, and plays murder. Everyone has a motive -- the only guess is which gets there first.
* Kirkus Reviews *When I saw that Mary Fitt was about to give us a murder committed during the playing of the murder game, I quailed; the thing has been done so often. Now that I have finished "Three Sisters Flew Home", I confess that if its authoress chose to re-write the dullest adventure of Sexton Blake or Rupert Bear, I would read and re-read. As chapter after iridescent chapter passes of this book, your suspicion that such exquisite writing must be a fluke becomes lulled, then dissipated altogether, and you relax on the assured beauty of the style as on to a bed of down; thereafter the reading is sheer luxury. We are guided through the mazes of Claribel's party by a Vergil whose insight into the developed human soul is wise even to devastation, and whose ability to perceive and convey beauty is rare indeed.
-- "Torquemada" * The Observer *Mary Fitt was the pseudonym of Kathleen Freeman (1897-1959) a classical scholar who taught Greek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff. Starting in 1937, she wrote 27 mysteries and a number of short stories as Mary Fitt and was elected to the Detection Club in 1950. Aside from her detective novels, Freeman published many books on classical Greece, scholarly articles and children’s stories. She lived in St Mellons in Wales with her friend Dr Liliane Marie Catherine Clopet, a family physician, who wrote short stories and fairy tales.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781899000586 |
| ISBN 10 | 1899000585 |
| Title | Three Sisters Flew Home |
| Author | Mary Fitt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Moonstone Press |
| Year published | 2022-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 186 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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