cover image Creeping Venom: An Irish Gardening Mystery

Creeping Venom: An Irish Gardening Mystery

Sheila Pim. Rue Morgue Press, $14 (155pp) ISBN 978-0-915230-42-6

In a vintage reprint from 1946, Creeping Venom: An Irish Gardening Mystery, Sheila Pim (Common or Garden Crime) lines up worried would-be heirs, witches, cooks and assistants as suspects in the poisoning of a rich old woman. One of the peripheral suspects, Tim Linacre, dons his detective cap to assist Bainsborough's four-man police department in sussing out the murderer.