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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Double Doom by Josephine Bell (Ballantine, 1957)

From the Lifeline Bookfair:


In the quiet English village of Farthing-On-Hone, two brothers suddenly die, one of an accident in the garden hothouse, the other--two days later and even more unexpectedly--while convalescing in a hospital.

What makes this coincidence of deaths peculiar, not to say downright macabre, is the notice which appears in the local paper announcing the demise of both brothers at the same time--while one is still, in fact, very much alive...
A disquieting little novel, with some VERY unpleasant characters and quite politically incorrect by modern standards.  What's not to love?