A few hours later, a maid named Gladys is found strangled in the yard, with the killer putting a clothespin on her nose. 1, but they’re dumbfounded when she too is found dead after drinking tea laced with cyanide. The police quickly latch on to Fortescue’s much younger wife as the suspect no. Bizarrely, the pockets of the dead man contain grains of rye, an outlandish detail that no one can satisfactorily explain.

It’s quickly established however that his death had nothing to do with the tea, but deliberate poisoning while breakfasting in the company of his family earlier that morning. The novel begins at the office of an unscrupulous financial tycoon Rex Fortescue, who expires at the end of the chapter soon after drinking tea prepared by his glamorous blonde secretary. On the whole though, the book just wasn’t as satisfying as some of its parts.

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