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A Coat of Varnish

A Coat of Varnish

by C. P. Snow

Publisher Macmillan

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About the book

Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook, who is waiting for medical test results. When Lady Ashbrook gets the all clear, she enjoys her new lease of life for ten days. When she is then found brutally murdered, the entire upper-middle class neighbourhood is thrown into disarray.

About the Author

C. P. Snow

Charles Percy Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) was educated as a chemist and physicist at the universities of Leicester and Cambridge.


After scientific research he turned to administration and later held many important public posts.


His novel sequence Strangers and Brothers spans the life of its narrator, Lewis Eliot, barrister - and took over 30 years to write. Snow describes the rarefied worlds of academia, Cambridge, the Jewish community and Westminster.


He also wrote several critical works including a biography of Trollope.

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