The Crystal Crypt

The 1920s most stylish sleuth returns in The Crystal Crypt for another thrilling murder mystery. "But accidents can still happen - Perhaps there was something out of her control, something she couldn't have foreseen. " "Like someone plotting to kill her. " Reporter sleuth Poppy Denby is asked to investigate the mysterious death of an up-and-coming female scientist in an Oxford laboratory known as the Crystal Crypt. The official verdict is that Dr June Leighton died in a tragic accident, but Dr Leighton's lab assistant believes it was murder. However, when Poppy discovers that the colleague has spent time in a mental institution and has an unresolved murder in her own past, Poppy wonders if she is being misled. But then, another female academic is attacked, and Poppy herself becomes a target.