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The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery

A narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham 'The murderer should be a little man of the professional class - a dentist or a solicitor, say - living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs ... The means chosen should, of course, be poison.' In his 1946 essay, 'Decline of the English Murder', George Orwell might as well have been describing Major Herbert Armstrong, the Hay-on-Wye solicitor found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic, in 1922. 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.

Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - 10 months ago

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Ships From - California

Est. Publication Date - Jul 2022

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