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CHRISTIANNA
BRAND
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Born
in Malaya, Mary Christianna Lewis (a.k.a. Christianna Brand, China Thomson,
Mary Ann Ashe) is considered to be one of the last writers of the golden
age of fiction. Her work showed a love of the language, excellent plotting
and a great sense of humor. Raised in her birth place as well as India,
she arrived to be educated in a Franciscan convent only to leave it in
her teens due to family financial problems. She worked in a variety of
jobs, from governess to professional ballroom dancer. While working as
a salesgirl, she wrote her first book, Death in High
Heels, as means to fantasize killing a co-worker she was not particularly
keen on. The book was finished after her marriage to Ronald S. Lewis.
The first Inspector Cockrill case - a character inspired by her father-in-law
- was Heads You Lose (1941), her next novel, and
it is with this series character that she wrote her masterpiece Green
is for Danger. She dropped the series in the late 1950s and concentrated
on various genres as well as short stories. She died in 1985.
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INSPECTOR COCKRILL
SERIES
OTHER
AS MARY ANNE ASHE
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