Review: Unholy Dying

Unholy Dying by R.T. Campbell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



First published in 1945, UNHOLY DYING is one of the several pseudonymous detective mysteries by Scottish poet Ruthven Campbell Todd staring botany professor John Stubbs, a corporate Orson Welles-size scientist who fancies himself successor to the great detectives of classical mystery. Here a Congress of Geneticists held at University results in not just one, but multiple, unexplained deaths of attending scientists. At first Stubbs' blundering feckless nephew Andrew Blake, a journalist, is blamed and arrested. The actual denouement is both surprising and poignant.


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