The Beverly Malibu A Kate Delafield Mystery

As LAPD detective Kate Delafield investigates the Thanksgiving Day strychnine poisoning of retired movie director Owen Sinclair, she discovers that he turned over names to the House of Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and destroyed countless careers. But which of his charmingly eccentric neighbours, most of whom have worked in Hollywood since the 1940s, might be responsible for what now appears to be a revenge killing?