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Murder of a Chemist

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Murder of a Chemist
First edition (UK)
AuthorCecil Street
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDesmond Merrion
GenreDetective
PublisherCollins Crime Club (UK)
Doubleday (US)
Publication date
1936
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byDeath in the Tunnel 
Followed byWhere Is Barbara Prentice? 

Murder of a Chemist is a 1936 detective novel by the British writer Cecil Street, writing under the pen name of Miles Burton.[2] It is the fourteenth in a series of books featuring the Golden Age amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard.[3]

Synopsis

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Josiah Elvidge a disagreeable chemist and a member of the Downchester Bowling Association is part of a touring party which stops for lunch at the Crown Hotel. After drinking a glass of lemonade Elvidge falls dead and Inspector Arnold who happens to be dining at the same hotel, is called over. It is soon established that Elvidge has been murdered by oxalic poisoning.

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Bibliography

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  • Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
  • Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.