Do mlhavých ulic viktoriánského Londýna a ponurých blat zapadlých hrabství vykročil muž, který věru neměl „ani špinavé ruce, ani strach“, doprovázen svým...
Marius Lovelaine has decided to extend the olive-branch and visit his estranged sister at her island-set hotel. He rallies his family together, but wife Clothilde wants nothing to do with sister or island, and opts to visit her cousin instead....
Described by Cecil Day-Lewis as 'a great lark, full of preposterous situations and pokerfaced wit' Coffin Scarcely Used is Colin Watson's first Flaxborough novel and was originally published in 1958. The small town of Flaxborough is taken aback...