Behold, Here’s Poison

Behold, Here’s Poison (1936) Georgette Heyer (Inspector Hannasyde #2)

Set in England in 1936

Stella, unable to feel that Gregory Matthews’s nature when a little boy could compensate her aunt for all the subsequent years of strife, was impatient of this facile grief.

‘I shall never forgive her, never! I have been ordering meals for Gregory for years! None of the others killed him, so why should this one? Tell me that!’

‘We have a tray brought into the drawing-room at ten o’clock. I myself think it’s entirely unnecessary, and simply encourages young people to sit up late, drinking and smoking, and wasting the electricity.’

‘Bit of womanly intuition, if you ask me. Funny things, women.’

‘You don’t believe in that, do you?’ asked the Inspector scornfully.

The Sergeant looked at him with a penetrating eye. ‘You a married man, Inspector?’

‘I’m not.’ ‘That was what you call a rhetorical question,’ said the Sergeant.

Characters: Mr Giles Carrington, Detective-Superintendent Hannasyde, Miss Stella Matthews, Mr Guy Matthews, Gregory Matthews, Miss Harriet Matthews, Mrs Zoë Matthews, Mrs Gertrude Lupton, Henry Lupton, Janet Lupton, Agnes Crewe, Owen Crewe, Mr Randall Matthews, Mr Edward Rumbold, Mrs Dorothy Rumbold, Dr Fielding, Mr Nigel Brooke, Inspector Davis, Mrs Beecher, Beecher, Mary, Rose, Jenner

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark

Rating: 7.5/10

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