When Rodney Bretton, a lecturer in mathematics, is run down by a lorry and killed, it appears to be merely another tragic road accident, and as such only of statistical interest to Scotland Yard. When, however, barely two months later his daughter Wendy is found drowned in her bath Chief Inspector MacDonald is sent to make a few routine inquiries. MacDonald is immediately struck by two facts. Rodney Bretton had been comfortably off and had earned a substantial salary, and yet his widow is forced to take in paying guests. His daughter was not the sort who would take an opiate just before getting into a hot bath, yet the post-mortem had proved this to be the case.
This is a good run of the mill mystery with a limited cast of characters, all residents of a boarding house, all with a quirk or two. The mystery is solvable by the reader if one sentence is picked up early in the book start apart from that its go along for the ride and fill in a afternoon with this story.
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