{"product_id":"the-poisonous-solicitor-the-true-story-of-a-1920s-murder-mystery-9781785789601","title":"The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, \u003ci\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a bleak Tuesday morning in February 1921, 48-year-old Katharine Armstrong died in her bedroom on the first floor of an imposing Edwardian villa overlooking the rolling hills of the isolated borderlands between Wales and England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin fifteen months of such a sad domestic tragedy, her husband, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, would be arrested, tried and hanged for poisoning her with arsenic, the only solicitor ever to be executed in England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArmstrong's story was retold again and again, decade after decade, in a thousand newspaper articles across the world, and may have also inspired the new breed of popular detective writers seeking to create a cunning criminal at the centre of their thrillers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, the case is a near-perfect whodunnit. But who, in fact, did it? Was Armstrong really a murderer? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne hundred years after the execution, Agatha-Award shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early 1920s, and questioning the fatal judgement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'CAREFUL AND COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC MULHOLLAND\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A REAL-LIFE GOLDEN-AGE CRIME NOVEL' SEAN O'CONNOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Icon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785789601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Stephen Bates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000481374389,"sku":"9781785789601","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9429abc1-60a9-4fd0-8441-db56ab402c5d.jpg?v=1736264951","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-poisonous-solicitor-the-true-story-of-a-1920s-murder-mystery-9781785789601","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}