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daja57's review
3.0
A step-by-step account of the true crime when solicitor Herbert Armstrong from Hay-on-Wye was accused of poisoning his wife using arsenic; a box of poisoned chocolates was also discovered. The wife certainly died from arsenic: sufficient to kill her was found in her corpse exhumed ten months later. There was certainly arsenic in the chocolates though no-one ever discovered who sent them. Armstrong was convicted, in a trial in which the judge rode roughshod over the rules, and hanged.
This book covers all the details in chronological order but comes to no new conclusions; indeed, the author seems determined to avoid speculation. This makes the narrative rather pedestrian.
This book covers all the details in chronological order but comes to no new conclusions; indeed, the author seems determined to avoid speculation. This makes the narrative rather pedestrian.
rumaho76's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
pickpoppies's review
dark
informative
medium-paced
3.0
My first book about the case, I went with the audio book and I liked the narrator Toby Longworth. Seems like a good capture of events and painting a picture of 1920’s England.