Death in High Heels (novel)

Death in High Heels

First edition
Author	Christianna Brand
Language	English
Genre	Crime
Publisher	The Bodley Head
Publication date	1941
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Death in High Heels is a 1941 crime novel by the British author Christianna Brand.^[1] Her debut novel, it featured Inspector Charlesworth, a young detective with Scotland Yard, who is called in when a young woman is murdered at an upmarket dress shop in London's Bond Street.

The same year Brand published Heads You Lose, the first novel featuring her best-known detective Inspector Cockrill, and she did not return to a solo sequel featuring Charlesworth until The Rose in Darkness in 1979. However, Charlesworth did make appearances in the Cockrill novels Death of Jezebel (1948) and London Particular (1952); additionally, the Mr Cecil character reappeared in the Cockrill novel Tour de Force (1955)