Natural Causes (novel)
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''Natural Causes'' is a 1953
comedy Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...
crime novel Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a profession ...
by the British writer
Henry Cecil Sir Henry Richard Amherst Cecil (11 January 1943 – 11 June 2013) was a British flat racing horse trainer. Cecil was very successful, becoming Champion Trainer ten times and training 25 domestic Classic winners. These comprised four winners o ...
. It was his fourth novel. As with most of his work it combines Wodehousian humour with a potentially major crime theme.


Synopsis

After a senior judge rules against the megalomaniac owner of Clarion Newspapers, Alexander Bean, the angry
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seeks revenge against him. He recruits a shady figure to try and blackmail the judge. When the blackmailer ends up dead, suspicion falls on the judge as a potential murder.A subplot also sees him having to preside over a libel case over a disputed Test match selection.Wood p.236


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Bibliography

* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * White, Terry. ''Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. 1953 British novels Novels by Henry Cecil Novels set in London British comedy novels Chapman & Hall books {{1950s-crime-novel-stub