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Death of my aunt por C. H. B. Kitchin
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Death of my aunt (1929 original; edición 1984)

por C. H. B. Kitchin

Series: Malcolm Warren (1)

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Tricked into delivering a fatal dose of poison to his wealthy aunt, Malcolm Warren, a conservative stockbroker, must solve the mystery of her murder before he becomes the prime suspect.
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Título:Death of my aunt
Autores:C. H. B. Kitchin
Información:New York: Perennial Library, 1984. 159 p. ; 18 cm. 1st Perennial library ed
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Etiquetas:mystery, British

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Death of My Aunt por C. H. B. Kitchin (1929)

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Malcolm Warren receives a telegram asking him to come down for the weekend as his Aunt Catherine wants to see him. After a bit of thinking it over Malcolm proceeds to her home at Macebury. The next day she is poisoned and Malcolm finds himself in a mystery as to which of his relations might have engineered the murder. He's not a very good stockbroker and not much better at detection so the Who and the How remain elusive. Meanwhile the police have their own ideas. I might read another by this author.
  hailelib | Jan 19, 2022 |
This was a fun mystery novel with a psychologically realistic and relatable narrator/hero. He's smart but timid and anxious and tends to crack up, and he's very kind. He's a young London stockbroker and it's hardly a spoiler to say that his rich, domineering aunt is murdered. This book was published in 1929, and my brother pointed out that all the stocks the narrator recommends were about to plummet--particularly Swedish Match, which was mired in fraud and scandal. I wonder if the stock market crash will be addressed in the next book in the series, Crime at Christmas. Could the crime be securities fraud? ( )
  jollyavis | Dec 14, 2021 |
Found this on a Guardian list of top 10 Golden Age Detective Novels. It was a winner. Good mystery, enjoyable read. Quick, light read. ( )
  njcur | Jun 7, 2020 |
Malcolm Warren, a junior, rather likeable young stockbroker, is summoned by his aunt to give advice on her vast wealth. Right away, one wonders why the aunt would consider her inefficient nephew’s advice. During his consultation with her, she takes some of a new "tonic" and promptly dies. Avoiding suspicion is hardly possible, so he sets out to solve the crime. There are several candidates for the deed: aunt's new husband, a younger man, out of her class and with no money, an insolent chauffeur, and numerous needy relatives of which Malcolm is one. Published in 1929 when Kitchin was enjoying huge success, this is a treasure from the Golden Age of mystery writing. The elegant writing with subtle wittiness is reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh, with just a hint of E.F. Benson.

As well as lawyer, Kitchin also was a stockbroker although much more successful than Malcolm Warren. ( )
1 vota VivienneR | Jul 26, 2016 |
Malcolm is a rather inefficient stockbroker who gets an invitation from his wealthy Aunt Catherine to visit for the weekend. He's barely said hello when she is dead of poison. Malcolm and his Uncle Hannibal are both equal suspects in the police's eye, but Malcolm knows he didn't do it and he decides he'd better solve it before the police mess things up.

I tracked this down on a recommendation from a LT friend, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. Malcolm is fairly unsympathetic, but mostly it's just that the story seems to take a long time to tell. And it's not really a long book, but for some reason, it just wandered around too much without enough happening. ( )
  cmbohn | Oct 20, 2010 |
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Until half-past six, the fifteenth of June was much the same as many other Fridays. Business was slack, and my work did not fill the hours which I had to spend in the office. At six o'clock I took my grimy hat from its peg, and after the innumerable "good-nights" which commercial etiquette seems to demand walked down Throgmorton Street without enthusiasm on my way to the tube. A few dispirited jobbers still lingered in the "street". The afternoon was wet, and rather cold.
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"(5) My duty and inclination. I do not believe that poor Aunt Catherine's blood is crying out for vengeance, or that there is a moral law, erect as a spiritual Eiffel Tower, which compels all citizens to do their best to hand over all murderers to the state. I do not believe that the state has a "right" to punish the murderer, though no doubt it is usually expedient that it should do so. I do not believe that murder is always the most awful of all sins. It may not even be a sin at all. I do not believe in retributive punishment. I am not inclined to hand anyone over to "justice". I am not inclined to do dirty work for the police. But I should not be terribly distressed if some of my relations (Uncle Terence, for example) were taken away quietly and executed." (Faber and Faber 2009, p. 99-100)
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