jonelee

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... re-read Scotland Yard's mild Gerald Witherspoon, recently promoted from the records division, inherited his aunt Euphemia's household and rescued other employees from destitution. Grateful for their light duties and generous employer, housekeeper Hepzibah, widow of country copper, supervises investigators: kind burly coachman Smythe, abandoned housemaid Betsy, slow of wits but quick to spot a pretty face footman Wiggins, and elsewhere-unemployable arthritic cook Mrs Goodge, who never leaves the kitchen, but invites sources, a disreputable assortment of Victorian London, to share their bounty. Wealthy elderly American Mrs Luty Bell Crookshank (brings case for Epilogue and sequel) announced the presence of poisonous mushrooms in the street's communal garden to her garden party guests, but only blackmailer Dr Bartholomew Slocum expires with one in his lunch soup. Nobody liked the stingy incompetent, neither servants, neighbors, nor patients drugged into signing indiscreet confessions. Cook Effie Beals did not leave her former employer the Duke willingly. Joshua, soon to be disinherited nephew, was stealing small household bric-a-brac. Married Dr Sebastian Hightower, canoodling lovely widowed Catherine Leslie, found the contorted body within minutes of his noon death, but Luty Bell has nursed cases, they take days. Colonel Seaward, only survivor and hero from African disaster, and enthusiastic naturalist, is up for a colonial ambassador appointment by the Queen. Close physical examination of the premises elicits minute evidence Mrs Jeffries draws to the Inspector's attention, and she patiently points his direction effectively. Typo? p73 "plump material figure" for maternal?

2023-06-20 07:12