| Description |
218 pages ; 21 cm. |
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British Library crime classics.
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| Summary |
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.. |
| Subject |
Country homes -- England -- Fiction.
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Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
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Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Mystery fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781464210877 pbk. |
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