The mystery of Angelina Frood

A sudden, suspicious collapse in an ordinary household prompts a careful medical and legal investigation that gradually reveals artifice and motive. Dr. John Thorndyke applies clinical observation, forensic tests, and logical reconstruction to separate simulation, poisoning, and tampering from genuine illness, while local police and inquest proceedings test witness statements and alibis. Layers of secrecy, drug use, and opportunism among household members and acquaintances emerge as small physical clues and overlooked details are brought into coherent sequence. The solution combines scientific deduction with courtroom exposition to explain how appearances were manipulated and to account for the events that led to the tragedy.