A death blamed on poisonous mushrooms. A collection of letters and testimony. And buried among the documents is the evidence of murder.
When George Harrison dies after eating a meal of wild mushrooms, the explanation appears tragically simple: accidental poisoning. But his son is unconvinced. Determined to discover what really happened, he assembles letters, statements, personal accounts, and other pieces of evidence surrounding his father's death. Slowly, those documents expose a tangled history of passion, jealousy, deception, and betrayal-and raise the possibility that Harrison's death was anything but accidental.
Told primarily through the documents of the case itself, Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace construct an ingenious mystery in which the reader must sift through conflicting perspectives and hidden motives to uncover the truth. At its heart lies an unusual scientific puzzle that transforms an apparently natural death into a brilliantly conceived problem of detection.