Sweet Poison
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 2024
200 pages
978-1-899000-75-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sweet Poison takes its title from a line in King John: "Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth". It refers not only to the fact that the central character dies of poison, thought to be self-administered, but also to the fact that this character is a man obsessed with the past. Augustus Gale was a man in love - in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. This macabre devotion poisoned both his own life and the lives of those around him: his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined obsession, and when a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, they were met with blunt and contemptuous refusal. It might be said that Augustus Gale was a man who deserved to die, but if so, whose was the hand that killed him and with what motive?
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Chalfont St Peter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-899000-75-3 (9781899000753)
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