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Publisher |
Date |
Issue Points - Notes |
| Curiosity Killed the Cat |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1947 |
Biscuit coloured cloth. Brown titles
Dustwrapper
priced 8/6 |
| Villainy at Vespers |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1949 |
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| Deadly Ernest |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1952 |
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Dust Jacket Artist: ?
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Joan Cockin Biography
Joan Cockin is a pseudonym used by Edith Joan Burbridge,
born 1919, and who according to a newspaper report became a "Foreign
Office Spokesman" They described her, not a little condescendingly, as "a
pretty 29 year old who admitted feeling nervous starting her new job at
the FO".
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Synopsis of Curiosity Killed the cat
THERE is something very true to life about the village
of Little Biggling. Many will be familiar with the quarrels of that
Cotswold village which the Ministry of Scientific Research has invaded
in war-time, and retained in its grip long after peace had come. There
might well be trouble in such a place between the Civil Servant lodgers
and the resentful locals And in Little Biggling the trouble was—MURDER.
The dead man was only a messenger of the Ministry — and Parry was an
unpleasant type at that : but the characteristics of the dead man meant
nothing to Inspector Cam except as pointers towards the murderer. It was
just unfortunate for a good many people besides Inspector Cam that Parry
seemed to have been curious about everybody and everything in Little
Biggling.
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