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Antidote to Venom (British Library Crime Classics)

✍ Scribed by Freeman Wills Crofts, Martin Edwards

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 208 KB
Series: Inspector French ⅩⅦ
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0712357793
ASIN: B00UGYRI8W

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✦ Synopsis

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care.

As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality – and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals?

This ingenious crime novel, with its unusual 'inverted' structure and sympathetic portrait of a man on the edge, is one of the greatest works by this highly respected author. The elaborate means of murder devised by Crofts's characters is perhaps unsurpassed in English crime fiction for its ostentatious intricacy.

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