The Late Mrs Prioleau by Monica Tindall

The Late Mrs Prioleau by Monica Tindall published 1946 daughter/daughter-in-law in mourning I wish I could remember how I came to buy this book – it’s been sitting on my Kindle for a couple of years. Perhaps it was just that it was a Furrowed Middlebrow/Dean St Press book. Always a sign of quality – this is my goto sentence: And, shoutout as ever to the Dean St Press who have made it available to us and earn my gratitude every week, it seems. The Late Mrs Prioleau is hard to categorize, and this I vaguely remember from when I first heard about it. Another comment I like to make is that 'this author wouldn’t have done well in a modern creative writing class', as the structure is strange and patchy to say the least. (It is always just an observation about the class, I don’t necessarily think a creative writing course is the last word). Anyway. I think I vaguely thought it was a crime story, but it is more of an investigation, with unlikely details. The narrator, Susan, has married a…