Oct 12, 2010
Major Payne gets drawn into a mystery when fellow officer Captain Jesty tells him about his clandestine observation of a beautiful woman switching the capsule contained in her aged husband's pill box which constitutes The Curious Incident at Claridge's. It turns out that Lady Tradescant has many reasons to wish her elderly husband dead. However, Sir Seymour Tradescant does not die of poison; he dies, two days later, in his bath at Mayholme Manor, a retirement home for gentlemen, where he is recovering from an infected toe. Major Payne and his mystery writer wife, Antonia Darcy suspect foul