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(0)Henrietta Clandon
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"A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was!"
The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are, invited by Lionel Fonders to a shooting-party at Chustable Manor, where the other guests are mostly fellow-writers of various types. But, Penny and Vincent become embroiled in a vexing murder case when their host is...
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"There are serpents even in this Eden," she chuckled, with a wave of her thin, much-beringed hand at something in the grass. "But now that we have a French cook, we shall be spared any dangerous mistakes."
The woman was actually pointing at a group of red spotted fungi, near the root of a beech.
The setting of Inquest is that most fabled of locales in Golden Age mystery fiction: a house party at an English country mansion. Hebble Chace is the residence...
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The real trouble was, as I see since, that people do not discriminate. They lump all cases of what they consider a like nature together, and to their ill-informed minds, I was in the same category as a mentally unsound woman who posts disgusting anonymous letters to her neighbors.
Miss Edna Alice is a lady, of moral rectitude and many other outstanding virtues. At least this is her own, strongly held view-not all others agree. This novel is her personal...
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"What you have in your mind is the possibility that someone put poison on a rose, and Mr. Morgan sniffed it up?"
When stockbroker Montague Morgan-renowned among flower-growers as the creator of the "Rennavy Rose" - is found mysteriously dead in his own garden, attorney William Power is called into the case. Power invites his good friends the Mercers, Penny and Vincent, husband-and-wife detective novelists, to help him investigate the matter of Morgan's...