Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Lyons, CO: Rue Morgue Press, 2006
Description
Other than her Uncle George, Sukie was the only member of the notorious Heap family who was still at large. Her great-grandfather, who had invented a particularly nasty machine gun, was immortalised in wax at Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors. So was Sukie's grandmother, who one day had taken an axe and disposed of five of her neighbours. Sukie's mother later tried her hand at arson and was sent to a mental institution. Sukie defiantly explained, as had her mother before her, that insanity did not run in the family. The Heaps were definitely being maligned. But, naturally, when Mr Bentley turned up dead with a bloody axe at his side, Sukie's husband figured she was at last taking up the family trade 'A charnel-house frolic' The Spectator
User reviews
LibraryThing member face_at_the_window
Sukie comes from a family of murderers... and it looks as though she's just followed in their footsteps. A fabulous, madcap crime novel!
LibraryThing member ashleytylerjohn
Rather odd book. The characters exhibited very little resemblance to real life--a bit like a Wodehouse cast, except without the delightful charm that reconciles the reader to the characters nonetheless. In her dead the author was considered rather funny, but it doesn't quite come off as intended
I'm intrigued enough to risk reading her again--despite it's sort of a 2 1/2 stars book for me, upgraded due to historical circumstances (if it were a modern book it would be 2, no more).
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).
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nowadays, or at least didn't for me.I'm intrigued enough to risk reading her again--despite it's sort of a 2 1/2 stars book for me, upgraded due to historical circumstances (if it were a modern book it would be 2, no more).
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1951
Physical description
158 p.; 23 cm
ISBN
0915230895 / 9780915230891
Other editions
Lion in the Cellar by Pamela Branch (Paperback)