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Author:

Symons, Julian, 1912-1994, author.

Title:

The Belting inheritance / Julian Symons ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Poisoned Pen Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

218 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Country homes--England--Fiction.
Impostors and imposture--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Kent (England)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Other Authors:

Edwards, Martin, 1955- writer of introduction.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1965 by Collins, London"--Title page verso.

Summary:

Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. A stranger arrives, claiming to be son David who was not killed after all. With Lady Wainwright's health fading and her inheritance at stake, the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Then the first body is found.

Series:

British Library crime classics

ISBN:

9781464210877
146421087X

LCCN:

2018955750

Locations:

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)