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by Marie Belloc Lowndes
I'm excited to read this book, as it's labelled as one of Sinclair Lewis’ four essential mystery stories (the other three stories being Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles, and The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers) and I’ve been working my way through them all.
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
This is another book from the wonderful British Library Crime Classics series, which is a series I adore, partly because I can never resist building up a collection and to own all the books in this series is just soooo tempting (!), partly because I love Golden Age murder mysteries and this is what this series mainly publishes, but a huge part is that I very much admire their aim of republishing books which have long been out of print and bringing them to the public’s attention. This book sounds very intriguing from the blurb on the back, as Laura Dousland is on trial accused of murdering her elderly husband, and the poison is believed to have been administered in…yes, a bottle/flask of red wine chianti!
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