![]() ![]() ![]() Before I’d read it, I knew of it merely as “the one with the mushrooms.” Now I’ll know it as “the really boring one with the mushrooms.”įor the most part, this is an epistolary novel in which letters written by the residents of a particular Bayswater address depict the state of family life before the death of patriarch and mushroom enthusiast, George Harrison (yes, really). Sayers that doesn’t star Lord Peter Wimsey. The Documents in the Case is the one full-length mystery novel penned by Dorothy L. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species? A clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in London, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about, except the dead man’s son. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill thirty people. The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was of a man who had died horribly-with a dish of mushrooms at his side. ![]()
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