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A scientifically minded professor is stumped by a case involving s�ances and an inexplicable inheritance . . .

After drifting apart from Sir John Claverton, Dr. Lancelot Priestley is finally visiting his old friend for dinner. But Claverton's situation is worrying. He's surrounded by relatives, among them a sister who speaks to the dead--but not to him--and a niece who may or may not be a qualified nurse. Based on Claverton's odd behavior, Priestley and a mutual friend suspect that someone is slipping him arsenic.

But when Priestley discovers that Claverton has died just a week later and shares his concerns with the police, no trace of arsenic--or anything else untoward--is found during the autopsy. Still, the perceptive professor can't shake his sense that something isn't right, and Claverton's recently revised will only adds to the mystery . . .

"The puzzle is sound, the atmosphere menacing in a splendidly gloomy way." --Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime

"You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story." --The New York Times

• John Rhode
• Published 1970 January 1st by (first published 1970 January 1st)
• ISBN: 1504072766
• ISBN13: 9781504072762
• Pages
• 3.98 97 ratings
• 13 reviews