About the book:

The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.

Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.

Review:

A clean murder mystery. The villain wasn’t hard to figure out. But I imagine that in 1949 when this was first published, the world hadn’t seen that particular twist as often as we have nowadays. All in all enjoyable, though.