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  • DEATH OF A 'NIPPY': A 1939 David Adair mystery (David Adair series)

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DEATH OF A 'NIPPY': A 1939 David Adair mystery (David Adair series) Kindle Edition

by Peter Zander-Howell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars (192)
A waitress at one of the great London 'Corner Houses' dies while at work. It is quickly realised that she has been poisoned. Her death is initially thought to be suicide, but doubts soon arise.
It is then found that on the previous day another 'nippy' was poisoned at a different restaurant owned by the same company. This girl is still alive - just - and it was initially believed that she had appendicitis. Even when the hospital reported that she had been poisoned, the message was misinterpreted and the restaurant management assumed that the problem was one of food poisoning.
Eventually, it is realised that the poison involved - aconitine - is the same in both cases, and so there is almost certainly a link.
The two incidents occur in different Metropolitan Police divisions, and the heads of these units jointly decide to ask Scotland Yard for help.
Newly-promoted Detective Superintendent Adair, with no other senior detective available, takes on the case himself.
What is the link between the two incidents? Who would want to poison these unfortunate nippies? And how did they ingest the poison anyway?
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    David Adair series
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  5. Publication date
    October 3, 2025
  6. File size
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FTSFF679
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 3, 2025
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.2 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ David Adair series
  • Best Sellers Rank: #307,961 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars (192)

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Peter Zander-Howell

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Peter Zander-Howell (a pen name) lives with his wife in East Anglia, U.K. They have three children and four grandchildren.

Deciding to get out of the rat-race, Peter took very early retirement from his management role in a very large company. Then, far too young to retire completely and wanting to keep his mind occupied, he started a small and successful business. Twenty years later he sold that business, and has now embarked on a third career as an author.

During his first two careers, Peter served as a magistrate for thirty-four years.

All his stories are set in England between 1936 and 1952, and are written in homage to the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction”.

Most are also available in Spanish (translated by Kindle Translate).

There are two series, and five books which are not part of a series:

The Philip Bryce series set in the 1940s and 1950s. 15 books (each book stands alone)

The David Adair series set in the 1930s and 1940s. 6 books (each stands alone)

Five other books, all set in the 1930s.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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  • A.A.Ali
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love David Adair Series
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2026
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    Wonderful plots and with so many twists and turns means you cannot put the book down. Learnt a lot of historical facts too and had to Google a few places and names so have acquired new information. Thank you
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  • Tomsreads
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2025
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    I do enjoy all the books written by this author. The straightforward plots without ludicrous complications, the believable resolutions, and the emphasis on police work and not some idiocy of violence. The principal characters are also normal human beings and not the angst ridden ones beloved by some writers. How some of them could ever survive as police officers is only possible in fiction. I actually prefer David Adair to philip Bryce but I'm odd so take no notice. This is, I think, one of the best of this author's books. It deals with the awful abuse and harassment of young female workers by men in senior positions. True only a few men despised by others but a very real problem for the girls. This takes us into the whole issue of abortion, illegal until 1969. I remember going into Lyon's corner houses with my mother when young and have been in them as a young adult by myself. Now all gone and replaced by American fast food junk that fuels the torrent of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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  • Ron
    5.0 out of 5 stars good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2025
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    Very nice murder mystery worth keeping to read again.
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