Birthday Party C H B Kitchin by C. H. B. Kitchin 9781941147191, 1941147194 instant download after payment.

Twelve
years ago Claude Carlice was found dead of a gunshot wound. The verdict
was suicide brought on by a fit of insanity, but his sister Isabel has
never believed it. Now the day approaches when Claude’s son Ronnie will
come of age and take possession of Carlice Abbey. Preparations for the
birthday party are underway, but it will not be a festive occasion:
Ronnie, who has imbibed Marxist ideas at Oxford, intends to throw his
aunt and stepmother out of the house and sign the entire estate over to
the Communist Party for use as a propaganda centre. As tensions rise and
the big day arrives, a strange series of events will unfold, revealing
the scandalous truth behind Claude’s death and resulting in an
unexpected fate for Carlice Abbey and its occupants.
C.H.B. Kitchin (1895-1967) was both a best-selling crime writer and a critically acclaimed author of literary fiction. In Birthday Party (1938),
he combined the two, resulting in a novel that is both a fascinating
examination of a changing English society on the eve of the Second World
War and a suspenseful psychological mystery full of surprising twists
and turns. This first-ever republication of the novel includes a
reproduction of the original jacket art and a new introduction by Adrian
Wright.