Delicious Death

UK

Collins, London, Sep. 1970

US

Dodd, Mead, New York, 1970

Plot

When a bored diplomat is approached in a black airport by a woman whose life is in danger, his interest is aroused. In a moment of weakness, he agrees to lend her his passport and boarding ticket.
Suddenly, Stafford Nye's own life is on the line. For he has unwittingly entered a web of international intrigue, from which the only escape is to outwit the Countess von Waldsausen - a power-crazed spider, hell-bent on world domination.

Contents

Introduction

BOOK 1: Interrupted Journey

1. Passenger to Frankfurt

2. London

3. The Man from the Cleaners

4. Dinner with Eric

5. Wagnerian Motif

6. Portrait of a Lady

7. Advice from Great-Aunt Matilda

8. An Embassy Dinner

9. The House near Godalming

BOOK 2: Journey to Siegfried

10. The Woman in the Schloss

11. The Young and the Lovely

12. Court Jester

BOOK 3: At Home and Abroad

13. Conference in Paris

14. Conference in London

15. Aunt Matilda Takes a Cure

16. Pikeaway Talks

17. Herr Heinrich Spiess

18. Pikeaway's Postscript

19. Sir Stafford Nye Has Visitors

20. The Admiral Visits an Old Friend

21. Project Benvo

22. Juanita

23. Journey to Scotland

Epilogue

Characters

Lord Edward, Altamount, Karl Arguilerus, Cliford Bent, Admiral Philip Blunt, Lady Mathilda Checkheaton, Mildred Jean Cortman, Sam Cortman, Dr. Donaldson, Professor Eckstein, Monsieur le President Grosjean, Henry Horsham, Sir James Kleek, Cedric Lazenby, Amy Leatheran, Lisa Neumann, Sir Stafford Nye, Colonel Ephraim Pikeaway, Eric Pugh, Dr. Reichardt, Mr. Robinson, Robert Shoreham, Herr Heinrich Spiess, Signor Vitelli, the Grafin Charlotte von Waldsausen, Countess Renata Zerkowski