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BEHOLD, HERE’S POISON, by , Georgette Heyer (Hodder Stoughton, 4/-).—Quite first-class, says the dust jacket, and the book fully lives up to the blurb. It is a good yarn and it is also a real detective story. In the opening chapter we get a very good picture of the characters through the thoughts of a housemaid, then comes the discovery that the master of the house is dead. The family doctor is quite prepared to give a certificate that death is due to natural causes, but a sister of the dead man insists that the coroner be informed. This is done and the autopsy reveals that death is due to poisoning by a very common substance. The police enter the picture and they go about their work as they do in real life. Another death occurs from the same cause. When the mystery is cleared up, a most unlikely person is found to be responsible, but even this is quite logical. At no time is anything done purposely to fool the reader, yet the writer achieves that very object by perfectly straightforward means. The characters are exceedingly well portrayed and a very good picture is drawn of a suburban household, which suddenly finds p itself plunged into the shame and publicity of having a murder committed in the house. Miss Heyer is to be congratulated on a convincing piece of work with a sound plot.
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Bordertown Border Chronicle
Bordertown, South Australia, AU
Fri, Oct 07, 1938
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