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by C. S. Forester

Overview

This book is complete and unabridged.

William Marble is a bank clerk living in south London with a wife, Annie, and two teenage children, Winifred ...('Winnie') and John, desperately worried about money and unable to control Annie's spending. One evening without warning they are visited by his recently orphaned and very rich young nephew, James Medland, who has a large amount of cash on him. Unable to resist the opportunity put in his way, William Marble sends his wife to bed early that night, saying that he wants to talk business and suggests she pleads a headache so as not to seem unsociable. He then slips poison in his nephew's drink, the latter dies and William buries him in the back garden under cover of darkness that night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823166119
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/08/2022
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

C. S. Forester was the pen name for Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966) who was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels "A Ship of the Line" and "Flying Colours" were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include"Payment Defered"(1926), "The African Queen" (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and "The Good Shepherd" (1955).