The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery
Publisher : Icon Books
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1785788175
ISBN-13 : 9781785788178
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery
On 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.Within 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.Armstrong'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....