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- Publisher: Ballantine Books (Mm); Reprint edition (Aug 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345351029
- ISBN-13: 978-0345351029
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.2 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,957,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A 6-year-old killer, a 7-year-old sleuth
10 Mar 2010
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've read only four of B M Gill's mysteries, but already she's among my favorite authors. NURSERY CRIMES is a sort of "Bad Seed" story with both a child murderer (an underage killer, not a killer of children, well not entirely) and a child amateur sleuth who longs to grow up to be a lawyer.
In WW II Britain during the worst of the Nazi bombings, city children were farmed out to safety in rural England. Two orphans ("Little Willie" age 4 and "Dolly" age 7) from the slums of Birmingham are unlucky enough to find a home with an the upper-middle-class couple with a spoiled 6-year-old daughter ("Zanny"), who promptly drowns Little Willie in the backyard fish pond while his sister watches. The family and the whole community--including the constabulary--bend over backwards to avoid accusing golden-haired Zanny of murder. Unfortunately, by refusing to believe the worst about the little angel, they make it easy for her to become a serial killer before she graduates from school. The plot is clever, the characters are rich, and the prose is impeccable.
In WW II Britain during the worst of the Nazi bombings, city children were farmed out to safety in rural England. Two orphans ("Little Willie" age 4 and "Dolly" age 7) from the slums of Birmingham are unlucky enough to find a home with an the upper-middle-class couple with a spoiled 6-year-old daughter ("Zanny"), who promptly drowns Little Willie in the backyard fish pond while his sister watches. The family and the whole community--including the constabulary--bend over backwards to avoid accusing golden-haired Zanny of murder. Unfortunately, by refusing to believe the worst about the little angel, they make it easy for her to become a serial killer before she graduates from school. The plot is clever, the characters are rich, and the prose is impeccable.
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