Title: Dead in the morning
First published: 1970
Description: Dr. Grant (not a medical doctor, but an Oxford don) possesses a questioning habit of mind; which gets him involved with a highly dysfunctional family helmed by a tight-fisted bullying woman.  It's a situation ripe for murder, but when one finally occurs, it's not the matriarch - it's the cook.

Did the murderer make a mistake?  Or could the woman have known a little too much about at least one member of the family?
Subjects: Fiction in English, Large type books, Fiction, general, College teachers, fiction, England, fiction, Grant, patrick (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Time periods: England, 1970s