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The Poisonous Solicitor

- The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery

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A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery AllinghamIn 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic.Armstrong's case has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, from a plot by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers (indeed some aspects of his story appear in Sayers' Unnatural Death). It is a near-perfect whodunnit.One hundred years later, Agatha Award-shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early 1920s, a time of newspaper sensationalism, hypocrisy and sanctimonious morality.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781785788178
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 336
  • Udgivet:
  • 7. april 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 223x144x35 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 466 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery AllinghamIn 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic.Armstrong's case has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, from a plot by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers (indeed some aspects of his story appear in Sayers' Unnatural Death). It is a near-perfect whodunnit.One hundred years later, Agatha Award-shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early 1920s, a time of newspaper sensationalism, hypocrisy and sanctimonious morality.

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