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Pamela Branch

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Pamela Branch


Born
Sri Lanka
Genre
Humor, Mystery & Thrillers


An author of comic-mysteries remembered for her wicked sense of humor, Pamela Byatt was born in 1920 on a tea estate in Ceylon, and was educated in England & France; studying art and theater. In England, Pamela married Newton Branch. They traveled extensively, living in places such as Cyprus and Ireland; and, amongst other jobs, both tried writing. The Branches divorced in the late 1950s. In 1962, she married James Edward Stuart-Lyon. Around this time, she was rumored to have been working on a fifth book, but no one knows what became of it. Pamela Branch died of cancer in 1967. http://www.ruemorguepress.com/authors... ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 309 ratings · 67 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
The Wooden Overcoat
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3.53 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1951 — 16 editions
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Murder Every Monday
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Lion in the Cellar
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Murder's Little Sister
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Series by Pamela Branch

The Wooden Overcoat Murder Every Monday
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Quotes by Pamela Branch  (?)
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“I don't believe for one moment that I killed him [...] But if I didn't, somebody else did. I must appoint myself Investigator. I must catch this malefactor, this pig. And if at any time it looks as if I am going to catch myself, I can always accept my resignation.”
― Pamela Branch, Lion in the Cellar
tags: amnesia, detective, humor
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“I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?"

"Motive - Don't know."

"What do you mean Don't know? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None."

"You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.”
― Pamela Branch, Lion in the Cellar
tags: black-humor, motives
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“She looked resentfully at Mr. Cann. It would, she was sure, have been difficult enough to persuade him, in spite of his protestations, to leave the house alive. Dead, he was going to be far more trouble.”
― Pamela Branch, The Wooden Overcoat
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