The Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery

by Julian Symons

Book Overview

Wealth can have its drawbacks. Case in point: The Collard and Vandervent families, who for decades have shared a large estate in the elegant London suburb of Blackheath. It's now the 1890s, and over the years, the families' near-incestuous entanglement has grown into a toxic web of lies and bitterness. While mama keeps an iron grasp on the purse strings, an unmarried daughter sucks greedily on her own disappointment, a son raises corruption to an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060142111
• ISBN13: 9780060142117
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting

This was a book that took me many pages to get into, but I read other books in between and kept going back to it. In the end I was satisfied with the journey and overall would say it is a worthwhile read for the Victorian Mystery lover.