Political Suicide Author:Robert Barnard CANDIDATE FOR MURDER — Bootham was a dreary Yorkshire town, without wealth, beauty, and especially class. But it did have a Member of Parliament ... until the Honorable James Partridge sinned against both God and Bootham by throwing himself into the Thames. — Well, perhaps he was pushed. So thought London Police Superintendent Sutcliffe from the m... more »oment he questioned the elegant widow, who never shed a tear, and met the candidates gathered like vultures for a chance at Partridge's seat. Politics made for strange bedfellows, but was an illicit affair behind the puzzling case? Or a passion so great it climaxed in murder for love, money... or even higher office?« less