The Poisoned Pen

Craig Kennedy is flinging unwrapped laundry into a suitcase when he calls Walter Jameson to catch the six o’clock train. In Danbridge, a young actress is dead, and a note in a doctor’s handwriting seems to point straight to murder.

In this Connecticut town of old colonial houses, factory wealth and relentless gossip, the poisoning of Vera Lytton has turned private lives into public scandal. Professor-detective Kennedy arrives with Jameson to investigate Dr. Dixon, whose fiancée believes he is the target of a conspiracy—and whose note, found crumpled in a jar of ammonia, looks devastatingly incriminating. But Kennedy distrusts the headlines, the evidence and the easy answer. What does that strange note really prove?

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