- Fiction in English, Large type books, Murder, Fiction
The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who died horribly -- with a dish of mushrooms at his side. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill 30 people. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species. A clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in London, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about, except the dead man's son.
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Cool, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace
- First published
- January 1, 1996
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Avon Books, Four Square, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780450053412
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