Belting Inheritance - Softcover

Symons, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060804688 ISBN 13: 9780060804688

Publisher: HarperCollins (paper), 1979

Synopsis

When a stranger arrives at Belting, he is met with a very mixed reception by the occupants of the old house. Claiming his so-called ‘rightful inheritance’ the stranger makes plans to take up residence at once. Such a thing was bound to cause problems amongst the family – but why were so many of them turning up dead?

About this title

About the Author

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.

Review

‘Cleverly told...brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard' (The Observer)

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins (paper)
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060804688
• ISBN 13: 9780060804688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1