A Case Of Indelicate Champagne

Description for A CASE OF INDELICATE CHAMPAGNE by Fred Halliday: Ah, Delphond! There is not food, not drink, no taste or aroma that he cannot immediately describe, classify, and dissect into all but its molecular components. He is the one and only, the supreme arbiter of all that is edible or potable, Stanley Delphond. His only problems seem to arise when a woman enters his life---or when a man leaves his life. But even death has its delicious moments, especially when it involves Delphond. Like those twenty elderly English gentlemen in Somersetshire...they never did finish their champagne. Then there was that diplomat who died in the sauna of a posh London club. Oh, and the former prime minister who was found quite dead to the world in a boat on the Thames. Most detectives would have quickly become suspicious of the champagne each of the Englishmen was known to have had. But Delphond knew the plot was thickening. Thick as oil from Iran! But thick enough to refloat Britain? Or drown Delphond? Yes, this case was more than murder, it was a global conspiracy!