The Documents in the Case
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who died horribly -- with a dish of mushrooms at his side. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill 30 people. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species. A clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in London, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about, except the dead man's son.
Customer Reviews
Heavy going at first but worth it
The book starts with a series of letters pretty much all written in an overly verbose and discursive style wandering off into apparently irrelevant topics. I was tempted to give up but I needed to finish the book in order to enjoy the Shedunnit episode discussing it ( part of the Green Penguin series)
When you get into part 2, it becomes more interesting and what impressed me was the degree of scientific knowledge presented and the assumption that the reader would follow it (I did but you do need to concentrate). The characters became more interesting as the book went on.
Effectively this is a “Howdunnit” rather than “whodunnit” but none the worse for that. I enjoyed it a lot more than I initially expected, despite the slow beginning and very abrupt ending.