Botanist"s Guide to Poisons and Parties

London, 1923. Academic world has its secrets and rules. At a dinner dinner, one of the professor wives is poisoned by an unknown poison, this daring crime excites the entire university. Dr. Maxwell is becoming the main suspect. She decides to conduct her own investigation and find a real criminal. Neither the male professor nor the police seriously perceives her, because she is a woman. Shafran is everywhere seeking evidence and, using his deep knowledge in Botanik, experimenting with poisons. She can’t cope in any way alone, and a colleague-researcher Alexander is a mysterious, young man who is difficult not to get carried away.
But the more secrets of other people"s secrets will find out, the more dangerous her investigation becomes.
who Still, a mysterious poisoner and why did he need it?