Nest of Vipers
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780099583998
Subjects: Fiction, crime; Fiction, mystery & detective, general; Bradley, beatrice lestrange (fictitious character), fiction
Description: Chelion Piper has been arrested under suspicion of murder. One of the tenants of his country apartment house, an unsocial and secretive old lady named Miss Minnie, was found by Chelion and two other men in her bungalow, dead in her bed. Suicide or accidental death is quickly ruled out: the woman was drowned in sea water (her clothes and bed were wet), and her face was bludgeoned in. Dame Beatrice is called in to help him, and finds that the joke name 'Nest of Vipers' for the house is not far wrong.