Charity Ends at Home

by Colin Watson

Book Overview

"This is an urgent appeal. I am in great danger." None of the three people who received the letter took the words very seriously. The Chief Constable sent his copy of the letter to Inspector Purbright, as did the editor of the Flaxborough Citizen. Then a woman was found dead and when it was proved she was the writer of the letter, the whole affair took a more serious turn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440111870
• ISBN13: 9780440111870
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not the best Flaxborough book

When compared with the entire body of Colin Watson's work, this title does not quite measure up. Despite that, it still contains Watson's trademark wit and some of the most memorable characters (almost Dickensian) in classic detective fiction. All of the Flaxborough favorites are here, including the inimitable Lucilla Teatime. I found myself laughing out loud throughout the book. The story's only flaw is the time it takes to get to the crime. Watson seems to like to pick apart small town society in his books, and his critical commentary is dead-on and hilarious, but he goes a little long in his caricatures here. Nevertheless the book remains a short fun read.

Mystery, humor, psychology and more with 110% entertainment.

Reading Colin Watson's Flaxborough mysteries will make you feel as if you had lived in the town all your life. You'll see the Flaxborough citizenry through the eyes and in the mind of inspector Purbright not as a panoptikum of criminal suspects but as your neighbors. Watson puts peoples actions, motives and feelings into such a perspective that along with the pure reading entertainment, one could use it as a textbook for Psychology 101 class, yet you will laugh out loud on every other page.