The Belting Inheritance (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Symons, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146421087X ISBN 13: 9781464210877

Verlag: POISONED PEN PR, 2019

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"Veteran puzzle hounds who guess the ending will still be moved by its power. The tale's valedictory tone, perfectly suited to a story set 10 years before Symons wrote it and hearkening back to social institutions from a still earlier age, is underlined by its reprinting 54 years later."--Kirkus Reviews

"Another addition to the British Library Crime Classics series restores a mystery, first published in 1964, by Julian Symons, an acclaimed mid-century writer who won two Edgar Awards and the Crime Writers Association (UK) Diamond Dagger. This mystery has a double focus - on a murder but also on a question of identity (with an inheritance at stake)...the double puzzle is riveting..."--Connie Fletcher "Booklist "

"An intriguing puzzle centered on identity drives this entry in the British Library Crime Classics series, first published in 1965, from MWA Grand Master Symons (1912-1994)...Symons throws in some clever twists..."--Publishers Weekly

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS

'Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard.' – Observer

Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Belting, claiming to be the missing David Wainwright - who was not killed after all, but held captive for years in a Russian prison camp. With Lady Wainwright's health fading, her inheritance is at stake, and the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Belting is shadowed by suspicion and intrigue - and then the first body is found.

This atmospheric novel of family secrets, first published in 1964, is by a winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.

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• Verlag: POISONED PEN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 146421087X
• ISBN 13: 9781464210877
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218