Since this was written by the same authors (Emma Lathen) who wrote the Wall Street mysteries featuring John Putnam Thatcher I knew it would be well plotted with a touch of sharp humor and this did not disappoint. Set in Washington D. C. the members of a House subcommittee are trying to master the art of sleeping with their eyes open while their grandstanding chair conducts a hearing into a new egg preservation technique. Unfortunately the chair is poisoned and the next senior member (Ben Stafford, from Ohio) must take over the hearing and solve the murder.
