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Chocolates and Cyanide
Mike Lord

Author Self-Published
March 2016
On Sale: February 26, 2016
89 pages
ISBN: 0152905197
EAN: 2940152905199
Kindle: B01C9XJOG6
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Thriller | Novella / Short Story | Mystery

A box of milk chocolates is delivered to a man just before he leaves to fly to work in Botswana. He does not open it and just tucks it into his packed suitcase. His suitcase is delivered in error to a lady passenger in Johannesburg, who helps herself to one of the chocolates and dies of acute cyanide poisoning!

A concerted effort by the police in South Africa and England have to determine who was the intended victim, and who placed the cyanide in the chocolates, but the identities keep them mystified until they find who purchased the chocolates, and who stole the cyanide. The activities of a string quartette throws up several red herrings…

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