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At the ancestral home of Strontfield Park, a gathering of twelve guests soon becomes a crime scene when the host, William Fent, is killed by a car accident and later found to have been poisoned. The mystery heightens as the autopsy reveals the victim was already on the brink of death. Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan must sift through the remaining eleven hotel's guests, discerning opportunity from motive, to uncover who orchestrated this double foul.
First publish date: 1975
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Catherine Aird
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