Buffet for Unwelcome Guests: The Best Short Mystery Stories of Christianna Brand

by Christianna Brand

Christianna Brand's fiction features brisk prose, wry twists, plots that lure the reader into a false sense of having figured every contingency, and ironic turns that not only spice the narrative but supply its lifeblood. No one has read a Brand story who has failed to read the last sentence.

Christianna Brand was born Mary Christianna Milne in Malaya in 1907. She spent her childhood in India. At 17she learned her father...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311402
• ISBN13: 9780809311408
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.0"