Natural Causes is a 1953 comedy crime novel by the British writer Henry Cecil.Reilly p.278 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 tycoon 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.