num_pages: 146
description: Striking terror in staff and patients alike, murder stalked unmolested through the dim halls of Resthome, a private hospital for the very rich and the very "nervous". And the richest of them, the mystery fan, Agatha Lawson, was to be discharged that day, after a ten-year "visit". Caught in the new excitement of death and intrigue, she stayed on to help the blundering Lieutenant Hogan weed out the criminal from among the inmates.'It takes a thief to catch a thief,' sagely said Agatha. That sounded sensible to the bewildered detective, who was beginning to doubt his own sanity. Thus, Agatha became a guide to murder. Thus, both she and the Lieutenant set about to discover the secret guarded by Dr. Lennox and his staff with such grim determination.Here is a gory, murder-filled mystery story, yet so amusingly told that the reader will constantly chuckle - when he is not shuddering!A rediscovered Canadian classic. What killer is stalking the nervous occupants of Restholme?
language: English
title: Crazy to Kill
titlecomplete: Crazy to Kill
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Nightwood Editions