Death Takes Me Author Surname:Rivera not to mention a peculiar

not to mention a peculiar last will and testament

And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing

After two years of unemployment

A classic set up with a closed circle of suspects - the tenants and neighbours of a faded-glory historic building in North London - but with a grittiness befitting the 1960 publication date

Death Takes Me Author Surname:Rivera not to mention a peculiarWhen a professor stumbles upon a man's corpse in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: 'Beware of me, my love, beware of the silent woman in the desert'. After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen?