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The Botanist's Assistant Emmuska Orczy Macmillan Collector's Library FBC|NHTV|FJH|FV|FJ Hardback 2018 But the gamble paid off"A murder in the science lab shatters a woman's satisfyingly quiet life when she decides she must solve the crime herself in this entertaining feel good mystery. Margaret Finch knows that when she turns fifty one, the day won't be celebrated. Like every other day, she will follow the same meticulous routine that she's had for the past ten years as Research Assistant II for Roosevelt University's brilliant professor of botany, Dr. Jonathan Deaver. No