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The Poisonous Solicitor - The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery (Hardcover)
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The Poisonous Solicitor - The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery (Hardcover)
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'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE
HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON
'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY 'CAREFUL AND COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN
'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC MULHOLLAND 'A REAL-LIFE
GOLDEN-AGE CRIME NOVEL' SEAN O'CONNOR A brilliant narrative
investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie,
Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. On a bleak Tuesday morning in
February 1921, 48-year-old Katharine Armstrong died in her bedroom
on the first floor of an imposing Edwardian villa overlooking the
rolling hills of the isolated borderlands between Wales and
England. Within fifteen months of such a sad domestic tragedy, her
husband, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, would be arrested, tried and
hanged for poisoning her with arsenic, the only solicitor ever to
be executed in England. Armstrong's story was retold again and
again, decade after decade, in a thousand newspaper articles across
the world, and may have also inspired the new breed of popular
detective writers seeking to create a cunning criminal at the
centre of their thrillers. With all the ingredients of a classic
murder mystery, the case is a near-perfect whodunnit. But who, in
fact, did it? Was Armstrong really a murderer? One hundred years
after the execution, Agatha-Award shortlisted Stephen Bates
examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and
atmosphere of the early 1920s, and questioning the fatal judgement.
General
Imprint: |
Icon Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
Authors: |
Stephen Bates
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Dimensions: |
222 x 144 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78578-817-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
1-78578-817-5 |
Barcode: |
9781785788178 |
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