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The Poisonous Solicitor - The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery (Paperback)
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The Poisonous Solicitor - The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery (Paperback)
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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 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. 'CAREFUL AND
COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN 'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC
MULHOLLAND 'A REAL-LIFE GOLDEN-AGE CRIME NOVEL' SEAN O'CONNOR
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Imprint: |
Icon Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2023 |
Authors: |
Stephen Bates
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78578-960-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
1-78578-960-0 |
Barcode: |
9781785789601 |
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