Relative to Poison explained

Relative to Poison
Author:	E.C.R. Lorac
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Series:	Chief Inspector MacDonald
Genre:	Detective
Publisher:	Collins Crime Club (UK) Doubleday (US)
Release Date:	1947
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	The Theft of the Iron Dogs

Relative to Poison is a 1947 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett.^{[1] [2]} It is the twenty ninth in her long-running series featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard, one of the detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction who relies on standard police procedure to solve his cases.^[3]

Synopsis

A recently demobbed ATS girl is offered employment in a Regent Street café, and takes her friend along. Before long they find themselves embroiled in a case of murder

Bibliography

• Cooper, John & Pike, B.A. Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dustwrappers, 1920-1970. Scolar Press, 1995.
• Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
• Nichols, Victoria & Thompson, Susan. Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder. Scarecrow Press, 1998.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Nichols & Thompson p.476
2. Hubin p.254
3. Reilly p.260