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Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022-
Subjects
Composers -- Fiction.
Widowers -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Crime scenes -- Fiction.
Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Yorkshire Dales (England) -- Fiction.
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Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022-
Composers -- Fiction.
Widowers -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Crime scenes -- Fiction.
Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Yorkshire Dales (England) -- Fiction.
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Before
the
poison
/ Peter Robinson.
by
Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022-
HarperLuxe, c2012.
Call #:
LP FICTION ROB
Subjects
Composers -- Fiction.
Widowers -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Crime scenes -- Fiction.
Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
Yorkshire Dales (England) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062107039 (large print trade pbk)
Edition:
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Description:
594 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A novel"--Cover.
Summary:
"After twenty-five years abroad in America. Chris Lowndes decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth The rambling old mansion he buys is charming. but. something about it disturbs him-a feeling made ever stronger when he learns that the house was the scene of a murder more than fifty years
before
. The former owner. a prominent doctor named Ernest Arthur Fox. was supposedly poisoned by his beautiful and much younger wife. Grace. Arrested and brought to trial. Grace was found guilty and hanged for the crime.The more Chris discovers about the case. the more convinced he becomes that Grace may have been innocent. Ignoring warnings to leave things alone. he sets out on a quest that takes him deep into the past and into a web of secrets that lie all too close to the present."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, 2012.
Winner of the Dilys Award, 2013.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Literary fiction.
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LP FICTION ROB
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