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‘We may know whodunit, but the question of ‘why’ is altogether more disturbing,’ writes Stacy Gillis, Ph.D., who contributes a new foreword to this reissue of the 1941 detective-fiction classic, A Taste for Honey. By matching wits and strategies, the persnickety Silchester and the determined Mycroft seek to thwart Heregrove and his stinging minions before they strike again. Mycroft, a retired beekeeper possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of bees and a Holmesian penchant for sleuthing.
Silchester’s sweet tooth leads him to the indomitable Mr. Leave it to one of the village’s honey addicts-the hapless, reclusive Sydney Silchester-to stumble unwittingly onto Heregrove’s diabolical scheme. Even more sinister is the discovery that the angry swarms were programmed to kill by a mad, ingenious apiarist named Heregrove. Horror strikes when killer bees swarm amok in the seemingly idyllic hamlet of Ashton Clearwater.
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