Please
welcome Mike Lord to Books, Chocolate
and Wine. He’s used a box of chocolate as a weapon and in the
process created murder and intrigue across the continents. He constructed a
fascinating story with wrongful deaths, murder, mayhem and a few red herrings!
Back Cover Copy Chocolates and Cyanide
A box of milk
chocolates is delivered to a man just before he leaves to fly to work in Botswana. He does not open it and just tucks it into
his packed suitcase. His suitcase is
delivered in error to a lady passenger in Johannesburg, who helps herself to
one of the chocolates and dies of acute cyanide poisoning!
A concerted
effort by the police in South Africa and England have to determine who was the
intended victim, and who placed the cyanide in the chocolates, but the
identities keep them mystified until they find who purchased the chocolates,
and who stole the cyanide. The
activities of a string quartet throws up several red herrings…
