The Belting inheritance
Record details
- ISBN: 9781464210877
- ISBN: 146421087X
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Physical Description:
218 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in 1965 by Collins, London"--Title page verso. |
Summary, etc.: | Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. A stranger arrives, claiming to be son David who was not killed after all. With Lady Wainwright's health fading and her inheritance at stake, the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Then the first body is found. |
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Subject: | Country homes England Fiction Impostors and imposture Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Family secrets Fiction Murder Fiction Kent (England) Fiction |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. |
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The Belting Inheritance
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The Belting Inheritance
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder 'Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard.' --Observer 'An intriguing puzzle centered on identity...' --Publishers Weekly 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.