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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Poisonous Solicitor Author: Stephen Bates Narrator: Toby Longworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 5, 2022 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. In 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic. Armstrong's case has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, from a plot by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers (indeed some aspects of his story appear in Sayers' Unnatural Death). It is a near-perfect whodunnit. One hundred years later, Agatha Award-shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early 1920s, a time of newspaper sensationalism, hypocrisy and sanctimonious morality.