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Perhaps Ben Elton's The First Casualty? Rather good WW1 hospital murder. From memory no jazz involved though :-( The First Casualty by Ben Elton. A historical mystery set in WWI. Read last year. I continue listening to Ivanhoe and I am just about to start Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. I finished The Casualty by Heinrich Boll this morning, and it was brilliant. "The corporal, pale and shivering, gave him hell for dropping the boxes in the mud."
The Casualty by Heinrich Boll
"Tell me, what did she look like, your Amadea?" "He said nothing and we leaned back again."
The Casualty by Heinrich Boll
"Aren't you going to go and find Alfred?" I finished A Pale View of the Hills and will be starting The Casualty by Heinrich Boll this evening. ... by Chuck Palahniuk
3) Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle - **
4) The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
5) The Casualty by Heinrich Boll - *****
6) House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
7) Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
8) The Warden by Anthony T ... ... inside - one from a horror perspective (the possession of a young girl), the other from the Devil's own point of view.
The First Casualty by Ben Elton and The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel
Both written by well-known comedians who have chosen the serious subject of war on a ... 85 pence gets me:
The First Casualty by Ben Elton ... the "locked-room" genre of whodunits, if you ask me.
However, he can be wildly erratic - one of his more recent efforts, The First Casualty, I loathed for its compound cliches about WWI, British society, gays, sexy battlefield nurses vs. strait-laced upper-class wives. Yuck to all of it. But I ... ... />Sword of Honour Evelyn Waugh I read The First Casualty by Ben Elton this week, a well written 1914-18 war crime story; finished Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks also excellent. And I'm part way into ... except It now beleves First casualty was written not written Mike Moscoe
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