The poisonous solicitor : the true story of a 1920s murder mystery /
In 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Icon Books Ltd,
2023.
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| Summary: | In 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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| Item Description: | "First published in the UK by Icon Books Ltd in 2022."--title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785789601 1785789600 |