The sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furore in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet doctors, vegetarians and the extremist Pure Food Society. Young sleuth Frances Doughty is engaged to discover the author of anonymous libels, when a former colleague of Whibley's, Hubert Sweetman, who has served fourteen years in prison for a violent robbery he claims he did not commit, asks her to trace his estranged family. Before she can start, however, the police arrive and arrest her client for the murder of his wife. There will be more murders and a vicious attack on Frances before she finally resolves a number of knotty questions. Is Hubert Sweetman really innocent? Where are his missing children? And who wielded the poisoned pen? The fourth book in the popular Frances Doughty Mystery series. All TITLES IN THIS SERIES: 9780752461182 The Poisonous Seed 9780752464756 The Daughters of Gentlemen 9780752470184 A Case of Doubtful Death 9780750954440 An Appetite for Murder 9780750960106 The Children of Silence 9780750963626 Death in Bayswater 9780750969949 A True and Faithful Brother