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A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham
In 1922 Major Herbert Armstrong a HayonWye solicitor was found guilty of and executed for poisoning his wife Katharine with arsenic
Armstrongs 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 nearperfect whodunnit
One hundred years later Agatha Awardshortlisted 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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