Death of My Aunt

Malcolm is a rather inefficient stockbroker who gets an invitation from his wealthy Aunt Catherine to visit for the weekend. He's barely said hello when she is dead of poison. Malcolm and his Uncle Hannibal are both equal suspects in the police's eye, but Malcolm knows he didn't do it and he

Show More

decides he'd better solve it before the police mess things up.

I tracked this down on a recommendation from a LT friend, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. Malcolm is fairly unsympathetic, but mostly it's just that the story seems to take a long time to tell. And it's not really a long book, but for some reason, it just wandered around too much without enough happening.

Show Less

Malcolm Warren receives a telegram asking him to come down for the weekend as his Aunt Catherine wants to see him. After a bit of thinking it over Malcolm proceeds to her home at Macebury. The next day she is poisoned and Malcolm finds himself in a mystery as to which of his relations might have

Show More

engineered the murder. He's not a very good stockbroker and not much better at detection so the Who and the How remain elusive. Meanwhile the police have their own ideas. I might read another by this author.

Show Less