Framed For Hanging
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First UKed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In a sleepy English provincial town, murder has a way of disrupting the most comfortable of lives — and in Framed for Hanging, Guy Cullingford orchestrates a tightly wound mystery that pulls the reader into a web of suspicion, deceit, and small-town secrets. When a seemingly ordinary community is rocked by a killing that defies easy explanation, an unlikely cast of characters finds itself entangled in an investigation that grows more dangerous with every revelation. Cullingford's sharp eye for social dynamics and provincial hypocrisy gives the narrative a wry, satirical edge that distinguishes it from conventional whodunits of the era. Writing under a pseudonym, Cullingford — the pen name of Constance Lindsay Taylor — was celebrated in mid-20th-century British crime fiction for her sardonic wit and psychologically astute characterisation. Her prose is clean and economical, yet laden with irony, drawing comparisons to the Golden Age masters while staking out distinctly modern psychological territory. Framed for Hanging stands as a compelling example of post-war British crime writing at its most assured — and its final twist will leave even the most seasoned mystery reader reconsidering everything they thought they knew.
Author: Guy Cullingford
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Hammond, Hammond & Company
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First UKed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In a sleepy English provincial town, murder has a way of disrupting the most comfortable of lives — and in Framed for Hanging, Guy Cullingford orchestrates a tightly wound mystery that pulls the reader into a web of suspicion, deceit, and small-town secrets. When a seemingly ordinary community is rocked by a killing that defies easy explanation, an unlikely cast of characters finds itself entangled in an investigation that grows more dangerous with every revelation. Cullingford's sharp eye for social dynamics and provincial hypocrisy gives the narrative a wry, satirical edge that distinguishes it from conventional whodunits of the era. Writing under a pseudonym, Cullingford — the pen name of Constance Lindsay Taylor — was celebrated in mid-20th-century British crime fiction for her sardonic wit and psychologically astute characterisation. Her prose is clean and economical, yet laden with irony, drawing comparisons to the Golden Age masters while staking out distinctly modern psychological territory. Framed for Hanging stands as a compelling example of post-war British crime writing at its most assured — and its final twist will leave even the most seasoned mystery reader reconsidering everything they thought they knew.