cover image Common or Garden Crime

Common or Garden Crime

Sheila Pim. Rue Morgue Press, $14 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-915230-36-5

Sheila Pim's crisp first book, Common or Garden Crime, originally published in 1945 and reprinted now in The Rue Morgue's vintage series, tells of murder by herbs in a Dublin protosuburb. When a neighbor is murdered with monkshood from Lucy Bex's garden, the upright, indomitable Bex undertakes to save the wrongfully accused.