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I’ve begun Behold, Here’s Poison by Georgette Heyer and narrated by Ulli Birvé. It’s the second in the Detective Hannasyde series but the first one I’m reading. It concerns a well-off family in the ‘30s whose patriarch (who is not married and has no children) dies suddenly. Many extended family members live with and depend on him even though no one likes him. The attending doctor, whom he didn’t like and whom his niece is engaged to marry, is ready to declare the death of natural causes until one of the deceased’s sisters insists on an autopsy, where it’s discovered he’s been poisoned.
This cast is full of characters and suspects and the family is full of colourful and mostly less than likeable characters who all squabble with and have grievances with each other, but nephew Randall is the least liked for various reasons and takes the cake in delivering withering witticisms aimed at family members’ various weaknesses.
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