Who put strychnine in a bottle of milk that morning when Mr. Chapman and his wife were setting for dinner? At that point no one knows, but as fate would have it. poor Mr. Chapman died of accute poisoning. Investigation takes place by the police and after some inquiry they find out that poor Mr. Chapman was not as exemplary specimen of his own society, even as he was respectable among his colleagues at high school staff. He often went around on field trips to interview possible candidates for jobs and applications that would drive out competition from other cities. After some time it turns out that he was quite a womanizer on those field trips and got some wretched girl pregnant. But as usual with these kind of novels, there is some other person who is even more guilty of the crime and that is brother of pregnant girl. Although these kind of crime novels can be discarded as anything but a fantasy, there is striking resemblance of actual police investigation. Hillary Waugh was pioneer of police procedurals and even as his novels are out of print and forgotten, there is everlasting immortality to his work.
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