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Before the poisonPeter Robinson

Before the poison

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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 buys Kilnsgate House, an old mansion deep in the country that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. He then learns that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s. The former owner, a prominent doctor named Ernest Arthur Fox, was allegedly poisoned…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    HarperCollins Publishers · 368 pages · 9780062204684
  • Other · English · 2012
    Hodder & Stoughton · 448 pages · 9781444704853
  • Other · English · 2012
    William Morrow · 358 pages · 9780062004796
ComposersWidowersMurderFictionGriefLoss (Psychology)DeathInvestigation