Title: Mrs Pargeter's package.
Authors: Brett, Simon.
Publisher: Macmillan,
Year: 1990
Abstract: Mrs Pargeter sets off on a package holiday to Corfu, to accompany her recently-widowed friend, Joyce Dover. Mrs Pargeter is already uncomfortable with this style of holiday but becomes increasingly worried by her friend's unusual behaviour when Joyce insists that Mrs Pargeter should carry a mysterious package through Customs for her. The way its contents moved left no doubt that the package contained a bottle, but why should Joyce be taking alcohol into a country where it was so readily available? The pair reach the beautiful port of Agios Nikitas and have their first evening meal in a taverna, washed down with rather too much ouzo, and Joyce then descends into a trough of gloom. Next morning, Mrs Pargeter is confronted by a horrific sight: Joyce's lifeless body lies crumpled on the bed, wrists slashed with the jagged edge of a broken ouzo bottle. It looks like suicide, but Mrs Pargeter is convinced it's murder.