Cat and Mouse (1950) - Christianna Brand

Category: Detective, Mystery, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: British Library Crime Classic Golden Age Mystery Inspector Chucky

Written by Christianna Brand
Read by Charlotte Strevens
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Cat and Mouse: A Mystery in Wales
By: Christianna Brand
Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
Series: British Library Crime Classics , Inspector Chucky , Book 1
Series
British Library Crime Classics
& 1 more
Release date
01-01-2026
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
8 hrs and 52 mins
Publisher
Soundings
Categories
Mystery, Thriller & Suspe

Girls Together magazine agony-aunt ‘Mrs Friendly-wise’, aka Katinka Jones, finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine’s regular correspondents, ‘Amista’. But reaching the address – a strange house perched atop a mountain which matches all the descriptions in the letters – nobody has even heard of ‘Amista’.

As Katinka begins to fall for the dashing master of the house, Carleon, more strange mysteries emerge and the plucky Detective Inspector Chucky joins the search for the truth in this self-consciously lurid mystery-melodrama.

The first of Brand’s non-Cockrill stories to join the Crime Classics, Cat and Mouse is a playful and experimental novel in which Brand sets out to combine Gothic melodrama with her signature style of mystery, complete with astonishing twists and bombshell clues hiding in plain sight.

©1950 The Estate of Christianna Brand (P)2026 Soundings