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"A top-notch mystery full of keen characterization, humor, old English atmosphere, a charmingly decadent family, and a few sudden deaths" (The New York Times). One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction''s Four Queens of Crime"There is a more marked kinship here to Dorothy Sayers and her type of crime detection novels…. Superior fare."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A beggarwoman on a bench arouses Albert Campion''s curiosity—and helps Scotland Yard lure him into a case of family dysfunction. The seemingly destitute woman is none other than a member of the eccentric Palinode family, which has recently lost two of its members. The police suspect a poisoner is on the loose, which is why Campion is willing to go undercover as a lodger in the boardinghouse where they live. As the recently deceased are exhumed, Campion becomes acquainted with the old-fashioned, out-of-the-ordinary family members, who talk in crossword puzzle clues, sneak out at night, and cook vats of stinky food in the