Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary In the midst of this

In the midst of this Bartholomew is called to examine two corpses

When his oldest and best friend is murdered

after all these years

The government's security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary In the midst of thisAugustus Gale was a man in love in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. This macabre devotion poisoned both his own life and the lives of those around him: his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined obsession, and when a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, they were met with blunt and contemptuous