Green for Danger

Inspector Cockrill Mysteries Series, Book 2

De: Christianna Brand

Narrado por: Derek Perkins

In World War II England, a military hospital may hide a murderer: "[Brand] could construct puzzles with the best of them" (Elizabeth George).

As German V-1 rockets rain down on the English countryside, the men and women of the military hospitals fight to stay calm. The morning after a raid, Doctor Barnes prepares for a routine surgery to repair a postman's broken leg. But with general anesthesia, there is always danger. Before the first incision is made, the postman turns purple. Barnes and his nurses do what they can, but the patient is dead in minutes. The coroner calls for an inquest. Barnes has a history of lost patients, and cannot afford more trouble. Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Cockrill is unimpressed by the staff at the hospital, which he finds a nest of jealousy, indiscretion, and bitterness. One of them, doctor or nurse, murdered the postman-and it won't be long before they kill again.

©1944, 1972 Christianna Brand (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

A good mystery, a better story overall

My first book from this author. It was pretty good. I liked the book. It wasn’t just a mystery. The characters and the descriptions were quite engrossing. The only character that I felt was not much fleshed out was the inspector, which is odd for a mystery book.
The mystery itself was baffling to me because I felt it was too obvious and it couldn’t be so obvious, could it? As it happens it wasn’t obvious… but somehow it wasn’t satisfying either. I was also confused why the obvious angle that I took as the only possible solution wasn’t examined at all by the inspector till the very end. And I couldn’t understand why that would be.

Anyway, it was a good mystery book. I just wish I could “see” the inspector more clearly. I got very little feeling for what kind of person he is.