Joanna Cannan

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Joanna Cannan: Murder Included
Joanna Cannan was chiefly known, until her death in 1961, for three types of books: her novels examining British interwar society, the mysteries she published from the early 1930s onwards, and her pony books for young readers. A keen horsewoman herself, Cannan passed her love of all things equine on to her daughters Josephine, Diana […]
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Joanna Cannan: They Rang Up the Police
They Rang Up the Police was Joanna Cannan’s first-ever mystery. It is one of only two books featuring Inspector Guy Northeast, an investigator forming, as indicated in my review of Murder Included, the polar opposite of that book’s D.I. Price: Of humble rural origin, Northeast is the perpetual, quintessential outsider in Scotland Yard; he is […]
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