MURDER GIVES A LOVELY LIGHT

Lieutenant Honneger bulldogs his way through the death of the socially prominent and wealthy Simeon Rade, some time after the death has been dismissed as natural. A very much younger wife and daughter involved in undercover romantic entanglements, as partner's confession of a past embezzlement, backstairs chicanery and gossip, supply plenty of conjecture. Aboveboard tactics for a substantial and well sustained tale.