OCTOBER 1937. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, finds himself invited to the Colchester Oyster Festival. But the mayor dies suddenly at the civic reception. An accident? A heartache? Or could it be … murder? Could he have been poisoned by the Essex trawlermen, furious at his plans to build a sanitising facility to purify their oysters? Could it possibly be his fellow councillors, jealous of his plans to electrify the town? Or his wayward nephews, the rogue Cowley brothers?
A tale of town hall intrigue, dodgy oysters, and the wall-of-death at the Kursaal, Essex Poison sees Morley, Miriam and Stephen Sefton embarking once again upon an adventure into darkest England …