Heads you lose

By Christianna Brand

Subjects: Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Large print books, England, fiction, Livres en gros caractères, Large type books, Fiction, Inspector Cockrill (Fictitious character), Cockrill, inspector (fictitious character), fiction

Description: 'I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch in a hat like that!' Those were the last words of mousy Grace Morland before she was found brutally murdered behind Squire Stephen Pendock's gracious mansion, her body in a ditch, her severed head obscenely garbed in Francesca Hart's new feathered hat. Six people at Pigeonsford Cottage heard Grace Morland utter those bitter, jealous words, including the dazzling Francesca herself, her twin sister Venetia and the dashing Pendock, whose attention Grace had so desperately wanted. Surely Grace's killer must have been one of the six...