Description
| Product ID: | 9780349013985 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
| Title: | Poison for Teacher |
| Authors: | Author: Nancy Spain |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Crime & mystery, Classic crime |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Nancy Spain, a dazzling mid-century English eccentric, is back in print ''Her detective novels are hilarious. They are high camp and less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal'' Sandi Toksvig A nasty attack of murder has broken out at Radcliff Hall, a Sussex girls'' boarding school. Enter, in the unlikely guise of schoolteachers, two unorthodox detectives: revue-star Miriam Birdseye and the Russian ballerina, Natasha Nevkorina. ''An either intense or sombre approach to crime is to Miss Spain foreign: in her world an inspired craziness rules . . . Her wit, her zest, her outrageousness, and the colloquial stylishness of the writing are quite her own'' Elizabeth Bowen |
| Imprint Name: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-22 |
