The poisonous solicitor : the true story of a 1920s murder mystery
Bates, Stephen, 1954-2023
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Total copies: 6
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. It is a near-perfect whodunnit. 100 years later, 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.
Main title:
The poisonous solicitor : the true story of a 1920s murder mystery / Stephen Bates.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Icon Books, 2023.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781785789601 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1523 BAT364.1523
LC class:
HV6535.G5
Language:
English
Subject:
Armstrong, Herbert Rowse, -1922 -- Trials, litigation, etcArmstrong, Katharine, -1921 -- Death and burialMurder -- Wales -- Hay -- History -- 20th centuryPoisoning -- Great Britain -- Case studiesTrials (Murder) -- Wales -- HistoryCrimeTrue CrimeUnited Kingdom, Great BritainInter-war period c 1919 to c 1939True crimeClassic crime fictionHistory
BRN:
598632