The "most psychologically assured novel to date" (The Times) by an Edgar Award nominee. Despite the warnings put forth by her friend Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, apprentice pharmacist Helen West begins an investigation into the suspicious death of another pharmacist's wife--and uncovers a viper's nest of jealousy, rage, and lethal addictions.
- ISBN10 0749308915
- ISBN13 9780749308919
- Publish Date 7 October 1992 (first published 30 September 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Mandarin
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English