The patriotic murders

Description:

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the rhyme – can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

subjects: Fiction,  Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character),  Private investigators,  Chief Inspector Japp (Fictitious character),  English Detective and mystery stories,  Police,  Mystery,  Murder,  Dentists,  Crimes against,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction,  Private investigators, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional,  English literature,  Détectives,  Romans, nouvelles,  England, fiction

People: Hercule Poirot

Places: England,  London

Times: c. 1930s