[MaC] Everything Stops for Tea

[Margaret Dean]

Jonathan Katalenic wrote:
> 
> Unlike all the others, the sludgy grey sediment was
> apparent.  Whoever had poisoned Marty Fitzroy must
> have slipped it directly into his cup.
> 
> "Err..." Richard looked up at the group. "I think we
> have it here. At least, that doesn't look like any tea
> -I've- ever drank."
> 
> "Indeed," Nicola said, frowning at the ugly sludge.
> "There's nothing in the teapot or the sugar or the
> milk or any of the other cups. Somebody wanted
> Fitzroy- and only Fitzroy- dead."

"The question is," Marion Mauberley said grimly, "whether it is
the same person who wanted Miss Diamond dead."


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>