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The Killings at Badger's Drift

Learned Chief Inspector Barnaby and callow Sergeant Troy go to work when importunate, elderly Miss Bellringer insists that her friend, Emily Simpson, did not die of a heart attack as her doctor claimed, but was murdered. An autopsy proves Miss Bellringer right; Emily had imbibed a Socratic mix of wine and hemlock. Spreading alarm throughout the community, an unseen murderer strikes again, leaving sly Mrs. Rainbird's bloody corpse to be found by her son, the local undertaker. As Barnaby and Troy investigate, they turn up evidence of another crime years earlier, and several suspects. Among them are the doctor's promiscuous wife, a young woman whose brother objects to her marriage to a rich widower and a Lady Chatterley-type gamekeeper. Diligent detecting brings the chief and his bumbling assistant to a sensational expose.

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  • "Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness. In the grand English tradition of the quietly intelligent copper, Barnaby has both an irresistibly dry sense of humor and a keen insight into what makes people tick." --Back cover."
  • "Learned Chief Inspector Barnaby and callow Sergeant Troy go to work when importunate, elderly Miss Bellringer insists that her friend, Emily Simpson, did not die of a heart attack as her doctor claimed, but was murdered. An autopsy proves Miss Bellringer right; Emily had imbibed a Socratic mix of wine and hemlock. Spreading alarm throughout the community, an unseen murderer strikes again, leaving sly Mrs. Rainbird's bloody corpse to be found by her son, the local undertaker. As Barnaby and Troy investigate, they turn up evidence of another crime years earlier, and several suspects. Among them are the doctor's promiscuous wife, a young woman whose brother objects to her marriage to a rich widower and a Lady Chatterley-type gamekeeper. Diligent detecting brings the chief and his bumbling assistant to a sensational expose."@en
  • "Although the coroner finds nothing suspicious about elderly Emily Simpson's death, many suspect murder and the investigation preceeds with Sergeant Troy stumbling blindly over clues and Chief Inspector Barnaby picking up the pieces."
  • "Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness."@en
  • "Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness."
  • "Marking the debut of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with his irresistibly dry sense of humor and keen insight into what makes people tick, The Killings at Badger's Drift is set in an apparently picture-perfect English village. Yet when a local spinster dies unexpectedly, the Inspector and his deputy uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments."@en
  • "Murder mystery."@en
  • "A chilling and fast-paced murder mystery set in the quaint English villiage of Badger's Drift."@en

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  • "English fiction"
  • "Spannung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Detective novels"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"@pl
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Anglické romány"

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  • "The Killings at Badger's Drift"@en
  • "Die Rätsel von Badger's Drift. Requiem für einen Mörder. Zwei Fälle für Inspector Barnaby in einem Band"
  • "Zabójstwa w Badger's Drift"@pl
  • "The killings at Badger's drift"
  • "Crimen en Badger's Drift"@es
  • "Crimen en Badger's Drift"
  • "Die Rätsel von Badger's Drift Roman"
  • "Provint︠s︡ialni ubiĭstva"
  • "The killings at Badger's Drift"
  • "The killings at Badger's Drift"@en
  • "The killings at badger's drift"
  • "The killings at Badger's Drift : [the first inspector Barnaby mystery]"
  • "Die Rätsel von Badger's Drift"
  • "Moord in Badger's Drift"
  • "Mrtví v Badger's Drift"
  • "Die Rätsel von Badger's Drift/Requiem für einen Mörder Zwei Fälle für Inspector Barnaby in einem Band"
  • "Meurtres a Badger's Drift"
  • "Meurtres à Badger's Drift : roman"
  • "The killings at Badger's Drift : [an Inspector Barnaby mystery]"@en
  • "Umori v Jazbečevem dolu"@sl
  • "Killings at Badgers Drift"@en
  • "Die Rätsel von Badger's Drift : Roman"

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