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    The Belting Inheritance
    The Belting Inheritance
    The Belting Inheritance
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    The Belting Inheritance

    Written by Julian Symons

    Narrated by David Thorpe

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundings
    Release dateMar 1, 2019
    ISBN9781407975351
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    Julian Symons

    Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America – an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain’s Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime’s achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.

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    • 3/5
      Good story, was a bit long I listened to it at 1.5x that helped just mediocre but if you like golden age mysteries you might enjoy this, although Bret Farrar by Josephine Tey does a better version of the "is it or isn't it the long lost relative we thought was dead that's come home" trope. This one tends to get tedious.