A review by crowyhead
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers

4.0

I initially checked this out from the library mistaking it for a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. It's not, but it still displays Sayers' ability to write believable characters and craft a mystery that keeps you involved to the last page. An expert in fungus has been found dead, poisoned by his own cooking. Was it a mistake? Suicide? Or murder? The mystery is uncovered through letters written by the deceased and those around him, which makes for a tricky bit of sleuthing as the reader tries to discover the real events behind the biased accounts in the letters. I did figure out the murderer and the method fairly early on, but I couldn't figure out how anything would be proved. Good stuff.