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Did Mrs. Weir's habit of brewing her own herbal tea give opportunity for murder? Inspector Pardoe provides the answer in this 1940 English mystery by a writer who was compared to Dorothy L. Sayers by contemporary reviewers.
First publish date: 2005
Authors: Dorothy Bowers
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