The quiet room seemed to explode. People started out of their seats. Exclamations, reserved and small in themselves, amalgamated like a whistle of steam. As there was nothing he could do. Davie stood... This description may be from another edition of this product.
A fun academic mystery set in Cambridge. Professor Bruen suddenly drops dead in the middle of his lecture on poisons. Hmm, what a coincidence! The forward compares this book to Michael Innes, Edmund Crispin, and others and I have to agree. Plenty of suspects, plenty of motives. In the classic Golden Age tradition.
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