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Cyanide With Compliments
(1972)(The fifth book in the Pollard and Toye series)
A novel by Elizabeth Lemarchand
Pollard & Toye's most intriguing case yet! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin.
There is no greater disaster than greed...
When Audrey Vickers is found dead in her bedroom - poisoned by chocolates posted through her letterbox - suspicion is immediately thrown on her niece, Drusilla, who she is known to have argued with days before the murder.
But Mrs Vickers was a very difficult old woman, and it soon becomes clear there are plenty of other people who may have wanted her dead.
With the crime falling under the jurisdiction of the Highcastle police force, who had worked with Scotland Yard a few years ago, Detective Superintendent Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye are once more drafted in to help.
Is this an open and shut case? Did Drusilla poison her aunt?
Or did someone else send her Cyanide With Compliments?
Cyanide With Compliments is the fifth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.
'All the ingredients of a first class murder mystery are included in the book and to give even the slightest inkling of the story would be to ruin the pleasure gained from reading it' - Southern News
'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy
THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder
Genre: Mystery
There is no greater disaster than greed...
When Audrey Vickers is found dead in her bedroom - poisoned by chocolates posted through her letterbox - suspicion is immediately thrown on her niece, Drusilla, who she is known to have argued with days before the murder.
But Mrs Vickers was a very difficult old woman, and it soon becomes clear there are plenty of other people who may have wanted her dead.
With the crime falling under the jurisdiction of the Highcastle police force, who had worked with Scotland Yard a few years ago, Detective Superintendent Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye are once more drafted in to help.
Is this an open and shut case? Did Drusilla poison her aunt?
Or did someone else send her Cyanide With Compliments?
Cyanide With Compliments is the fifth cosy village mystery in the Pollard & Toye crime series: an intriguing police procedural set in rural England.
'All the ingredients of a first class murder mystery are included in the book and to give even the slightest inkling of the story would be to ruin the pleasure gained from reading it' - Southern News
'In the best Agatha Christie tradition' - Argosy
THE POLLARD & TOYE INVESTIGATIONS SERIES
Book One: Death of an Old Girl
Book Two: The Affacombe Affair
Book Three: Alibi for a Corpse
Book Four: Death on Doomsday
Book Five: Cyanide With Compliments
Book Six: No Vacation From Murder
Book Seven: Buried in the Past
Book Eight: Step in the Dark
Book Nine: Unhappy Returns
Book Ten: Suddenly While Gardening
Book Eleven: Change for the Worse
Book Twelve: Nothing to Do with the Case
Book Thirteen: Troubled Waters
Book Fourteen: The Wheel Turns
Book Fifteen: Light Through Glass
Book Sixteen: Who Goes Home?
Book Seventeen: The Glade Manor Murder
Genre: Mystery
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