Death at Breakfast, John Rhode
Death at Breakfast, John Rhode
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Death at Breakfast

Author: John Rhode

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/08/2018

Synopsis

A classic winter’s crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. Victor Harleston awoke with uncharacteristic optimism. Today he would be rich at last. Half an hour later, he gulped down his breakfast coffee and pitched to the floor, gasping and twitching. When the doctor arrived, he recognised instantly that it was a fatal case of poisoning and called in Scotland Yard. Despite an almost complete absence of clues, the circumstances were so suspicious that Inspector Hanslet soon referred the evidence to his friend and mentor, Dr Lancelot Priestley, whose deductions revealed a diabolically ingenious murder that would require equally fiendish ingenuity to solve.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on July 06, 2018

Published by Collins The Crime Club Feb 1936 - this is one of four books that John Rhodes/Miles Burton (alias Cecil John Charles Street) wrote in that year. I will type out the book taster from the original book at the bottom of this review. I have read quite a few of the Rhode/Burton titles and fin......more

Goodreads review by Katia on April 17, 2024

It is certainly entertaining, but some of the solutions were quite obvious from the start. Also, the Superintendent of Scotland Yard is so egregiously obtuse that it is just unbelievable.......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on June 19, 2019

Perfect mystery book to read while traveling.......more

Goodreads review by Katy on June 14, 2019

I have long been a fan of classic mystery writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, so when this book caught my eye on the crime shelves during my annual 'Christmas book token spending spree', I decided to take a chance on it, partly due to the cover art a......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on December 15, 2023

Slightly different writing style and presentation from what I usually read. After being woken with his first pot of tea of the day, Victor Harleston gets out of bed, washes, shaves, dresses and appears downstairs for breakfast. Moments later, his half-sister Janet is calling for help, as her brother......more

Quotes

‘One always embarks on a John Rhode book with a great feeling of security. One knows that there will be a sound plot, a well-knit process of reasoning and a solidly satisfying solution with no loose ends or careless errors of fact.’DOROTHY L. SAYERS in THE SUNDAY TIMES ‘Death at Breakfast is full of John Rhode’s specialties: a new and excellently ingenious method of murder, a good story, and a strong chain of deduction.’DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘John Rhode well deserves his reputation as a constructor of almost flawless detective story plots. To read any of his tales is a very agreeable intellectual exercise.’DAILY MAIL

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