Death in High Heels (novel)

Death in High Heels
First edition
AuthorChristianna Brand
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
PublisherThe Bodley Head
Publication date
1941
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Death in High Heels is a 1941 crime novel by the British author Christianna Brand.[1] Her debut novel, it featured Inspector Charlesworth, a young detective with Scotland Yard, who is called in when a young woman is murdered at an upmarket dress shop in London's Bond Street.

The same year Brand published Heads You Lose, the first novel featuring her best-known detective Inspector Cockrill, and she did not return to a solo sequel featuring Charlesworth until The Rose in Darkness in 1979. However, Charlesworth did make appearances in the Cockrill novels Death of Jezebel (1948) and London Particular (1952); additionally, the Mr Cecil character reappeared in the Cockrill novel Tour de Force (1955)

Adaptation

In 1947 it was made into a film of the same title starring Don Stannard, Elsa Tee and Veronica Rose. It was produced as a second feature at Marylebone Studios and distributed by Exclusive Films.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hoffman p.9
  2. ^ Goble p.53

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Hoffman, Megan. Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction. Springer, 2016.


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