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The Belting Inheritance (British Library Crime Classics)

✍ Scribed by Symons, Julian

Book ID: 111881210
Tongue: English
Weight: 427 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780712352321
ASIN: B07H37YDST

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✦ Synopsis

‘Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard’ – Observer

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.

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