Relative to Poison

{{Short description|1947 novel}}

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| author = E.C.R. Lorac

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Chief Inspector MacDonald

| genre = Detective

| publisher = Collins Crime Club (UK)
Doubleday (US)

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| preceded_by =The Theft of the Iron Dogs

| followed_by = Death Before Dinner

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Relative to Poison is a 1947 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.Nichols & Thompson p.476Hubin p.254 It is the twenty ninth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, one of the detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction who relies on standard police procedure to solve his cases.Reilly p.260

Synopsis

A recently demobbed ATS girl is offered employment in a Regent Street café, and takes her friend along. Before long they find themselves embroiled in a case of murder

References

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Bibliography

  • Cooper, John & Pike, B.A. Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dustwrappers, 1920-1970. Scolar Press, 1995.
  • Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
  • Nichols, Victoria & Thompson, Susan. Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder. Scarecrow Press, 1998.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Category:1947 British novels

Category:British mystery novels

Category:Novels by E. C. R. Lorac

Category:Novels set in London

Category:British detective novels

Category:Collins Crime Club books

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