Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary The government's security department have

The government's security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley

When his oldest and best friend is murdered

and by the time I realise my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside

after all these years

in a life of crime

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary The government's security department haveAugustus Gale was a man in love in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. This macabre devotion poisoned both his own life and the lives of those around him: his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined obsession, and when a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, they were met with blunt and contemptuous