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Dr. Patrick Grant, an Oxford don renowned for his questioning mind, finds himself entangled with a highly dysfunctional family headed by a tight‑fisted, bullying matriarch. The family's troubled dynamics set the stage for a dramatic murder: the cook is the victim, not the obvious suspect. The investigation reveals a tangled web of motives, secrets, and possibilities, prompting readers to question whether the killer made a mistake or if the matriarch knowingly possessed too much information about at least one family member.
First publish date: 1970
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Margaret Yorke
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