Death at Breakfast

Description

A classic winter's crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. Victor Harleston awoke with uncharacteristic optimism. Today he would be rich at last. Half an hour later, he gulped down his breakfast coffee and pitched to the floor, gasping and twitching. When the doctor arrived, he recognised instantly that it was a fatal case of poisoning and called in Scotland Yard. Despite an almost complete absence of clues, the circumstances were so suspicious that Inspector Hanslet soon referred the evidence to his friend and mentor, Dr Lancelot Priestley, whose deductions revealed a diabolically ingenious murder that would require equally fiendish ingenuity to solve.

John Rhode was born Cecil Street in 1884. Although little is known about him he enjoyed a distinguised military career and was awarded an OBE. He was the author of 140 novels under the names John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Wade. Cecil Street died in 1964.

'One always embarks on a John Rhode book with a great feeling of security. One knows that there will be a sound plot, a well-knit process of reasoning and a solidly satisfying solution with no loose ends or careless errors of fact.' DOROTHY L. SAYERS in THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Death at Breakfast is full of John Rhode's specialties: a new and excellently ingenious method of murder, a good story, and a strong chain of deduction.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'John Rhode well deserves his reputation as a constructor of almost flawless detective story plots. To read any of his tales is a very agreeable intellectual exercise.' DAILY MAIL