The Belting Inheritance

De: Julian Symons

Narrado por: David Thorpe

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.

This atmospheric novel of family secrets, first published in 1964, is by a winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.

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Recommended

Excellent work which was well performed. One of the best old mysteries from the British Library series so far.

Engagingly Implausible Mystery

way too many coincidental meetings and a Rube Goldberg contraption of a plot but well-written with mostly interesting characters and very well read/performed by David Thorpe