A Murder Too Many

Part of Elizabeth Ferrer's series about retired botany professor Andrew Basnett who seems to get involved with investigating murders! The professor heads up to one of his old academic haunts for a conference, one of his old colleagues wants some advice from him but not on botany! A member of the university was killed a couple of years before but the colleague has doubts that the man who was tried and convicted for the murder was the right man and he hopes Basnett can investigate.

The professor is pretty reluctant to do this, having tired of being an amateur detective, but soon finds himself embroiled in a rather complicated situation with various suspicious characters, and also another murder!

This isn't the best Basnett book, he is maybe a little too jaded and reluctant to give the story much energy, and it needed some due to the number of characters introduced. The unveiling of the culprits is also rather low-key, taking place in the background. However, as with all of Ferrer's books it was still an enjoyable read.