The Blackheath poisonings: A Victorian murder mystery - Hardcover
A sinister web of blackmail, adultery, and poisoning is uncovered after Beatrice's husband suddenly becomes sick and dies and her mother, the heiress of Albert House, develops the same mysterious symptoms
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Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America – an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain’s Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime’s achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.
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“A bravura performance and an elegant example of the classic British mystery at its best.” —Newsweek --Newsweek
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0002310708
- ISBN 13 9780002310703
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages266
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