description: Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked-looking house. Then the wealthy patriarch of the household, Aristide, is murdered-injected not with insulin for his diabetes but with a killer substance.Suspicion falls on the whole houselhold, including Aristede's two sons, his widow - fifty years his junior - and even his three grandchildren. Could any member of this seemingly devoted famly have had a hand in his death? Can Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughter, help the police find the killer?
language: English
title: Crooked House
titlecomplete: Crooked House
characters: Sophia Leonides, Laurence Brown, Magda Leonides, Eustace Leonides, Josephine Leonides, Detective Sergeant Lamb, Aristide Leonides, Brenda Leonides, Chief Inspector Taverner, Philip Leonides, Clemency Leonides, Charles Hayward, Roger Leonides, Edith de Haviland, The Old Man
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook
ratings_count: 70644
places: London, England
publisher: Macmillan Audio