The Belting Inheritance - (British Library Crime Classics) by Julian Symons (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS</b></p> <p><b>'Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard.' - <i>Observer</i></b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>This atmospheric novel of family secrets, first published in 1964, is by a winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An intriguing puzzle centered on identity drives this entry in the British Library Crime Classics series, first published in 1965, from MWA Grand Master Symons (1912-1994)...Symons throws in some clever twists...-- "<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>"<br><br>Another addition to the British Library Crime Classics series restores a mystery, first published in 1964, by Julian Symons, an acclaimed mid-century writer who won two Edgar Awards and the Crime Writers Association (UK) Diamond Dagger. This mystery has a double focus - on a murder but also on a question of identity (with an inheritance at stake)...the double puzzle is riveting...--Connie Fletcher "<b><i>Booklist</i></b>"<br><br>Veteran puzzle hounds who guess the ending will still be moved by its power. The tale's valedictory tone, perfectly suited to a story set 10 years before Symons wrote it and hearkening back to social institutions from a still earlier age, is underlined by its reprinting 54 years later.-- "<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><strong>JULIAN SYMONS</strong> (1912-1994) was a notable writer of British crime fiction from the 1950s until his death, publishing more than thirty novels. He served as President of the prestigious Detection Club, won two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and is well known as the author of <em>Bloody Murder</em>, a classic history of crime fiction.
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