Cat and Mouse

A Mystery in Wales

Christianna Brand

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British Library Publishing
01 September 2025

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: British Library Crime Classics

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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 of 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 weird mysteries emerge and the plucky Detective Inspector Chucky joins the search for the truth in this self-consciously lurid mystery-melodrama; a rollicking cavalcade of Brand's signature twists and turns.

'From time to time there is published a mystery story which is also a piece of good writing. Such a novel is Cat and Mouse...a mystery novel for the connoisseur.'

Glasgow Herald, 1950

'This department has never before admitted its inability to put a book down. But I had trouble with Cat and Mouse...

A fine melodrama, with a cheerful disregard for the sterile rules of the detective game.'

News Chronicle, 1950

By: Christianna Brand
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 138
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780712355520
ISBN 10: 0712355529
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Christianna Brand was the pen name of Mary Christianna Milne (19071988), a crime writer who was born in British Malaya. She is best known for her mystery novels and short stories featuring Inspector Cockrill along with the Nurse Matilda books for children, which were adapted for screen as Nanny McPhee.