num_pages: 192
description: “I am in great danger … I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty.” This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable himself. So when one of the town’s most tireless charity workers, Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden pond, a connection seems likely. Yet Detective Inspector Purbright finds the case does not quite add up and it takes the acute wits of his old friend, the ever-charming Miss Lucilla Teatime, as well as the more unwitting help of Mortimer Hive, indifferent private investigator and accomplished ladies’ man, to tease out the real murderer.
language: English
title: Charity Ends at Home
titlecomplete: Charity Ends at Home (Flaxborough, #5)
characters: Sergeant Sidney Love, Chief Constable Chubb, Inspector Purbright
genres: Crime, Detective, Cozy Mystery, Humor, Fiction, British Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 342
series: Flaxborough Chronicles
publisher: Methuen