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The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons

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The Belting Inheritance

Author
Julian Symons
Narrator
David Thorpe
Publisher
Soundings
Publish Date
1 March 2019
Run Time
7 hours 37 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Classic crime and mystery fiction
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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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Author
Julian Symons
Narrator
David Thorpe
Duration
7 hours 37 minutes
Release Date
1 March 2019
ISBN
9781407975351
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Soundings
Genre
Classic crime and mystery fiction

Synopsis

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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