Publisher's Synopsis
Nice People Poison: "A tray of cocktail glasses, a shaker of martinis, and a glass of Bourbon and water. Five people, Nicholas Parr estimated, had access to that highball in the pantry. The husband. The sister. The maid. Tod Burton. Chet Taggart. . . . One of the five had put arsenic in the Bourbon."
Attorney Nicholas Parr's investigation skillfully uncovers motive after motive in these five savory and unsavory lives which might have inspired murder. Veronica King had just changed her will, leaving her large estate to her young sister instead of her husband, Roger. The lives of the others, who were in the King mansion the fatal night, were entwined with the lives of the Kings. Each clue leads deeper into the tangle of jealousies, fears, and schemes. The events of the first murder are reenacted, and in the midst of this grisly drama, a second murder is done-a murder meant for someone else.
Nice People Poison is for those who like mystery and excitement and for readers who revel in tales of high life and its people knowingly and realistically portrayed. Enjoy following the agile sleuthing of Nicholas Parr as he pursues the slender clues to a cleverly hidden solution.
Murder in Room 700: The victim is a famous New York playwright, dead in a hotel room, while Mrs. Virginia Channing works feverishly to obliterate signs of the struggle and death. Around this woman weave the threads of circumstances and suspicions whose unraveling takes up the course of the story. Assistant district attorney Stephen Ryder, friend of the slain man, investigates and immediately finds himself faced with a determined woman who may or may not be telling him the truth, but is desperate for his help.
"Good rousing thriller by this versatile and accomplished writer, who always gives us the worth of our money . . ." (1931 review)
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