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The Bottle Party
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781447405184
Publisher: Detective Fiction Classics
Published: May 5 2011
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A convivial gathering turns deadly when a guest is poisoned amid the clinking glasses, and it falls to the plump, brilliant Reggie Fortune to sift charm from menace and unmask a very civilised killer.
From H. C. Bailey, one of the most admired writers of the golden age, comes a sparkling case for Reggie Fortune, the amiable Home Office surgeon whose deceptively languid manner hides a razor intellect. The Bottle Party sets a fatal poisoning against the froth of a fashionable social occasion, testing Fortune's blend of medical insight and moral steel. Bailey's stories, celebrated for their wit and their compassion, helped define the short detective tale between the wars.
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