Before the poison
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and that the co…
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- Full title :Before the poison / Peter Robinson.
Summary
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and that the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before ...
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
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A novel.
The Physical Object
- Description:436 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781444704839, 1444704834, 9781444704860, 1444704869, 9781444704853, 1444704850, 9781444704846, 1444704842
- oclc:ocn731926306
- LC Classification:PR6068.O1964
- Dewey Decimal:823.914
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