The Herbert Jenkins Wireless (an excerpt)
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Bad Day For Black Rock Cake: Daisy Armitage.
WHEN Sylvia and Jemima of the fourth form created Black Rock Cake, using liquorice, during cookery class, they little suspected that jealousy over their achievement would lead to murder. Headmistress Miss Radclyffe asks actress/amateur sleuth Nancy Spain to investigate, and her ruminations lead to a showdown at the black rocks that inspired the infamous recipe.
“Miss Armitage ladles on the thrills, and ices the cake with menace” – Daily Express
“The way in which the story stops for recipes at regular intervals is rather irritating” – The Times
“I wish there had been more recipes and less of the ludicrous plot” – Catering Weekly