Poisonous Lies: The Croydon Arsenic Mystery

Download or read book Poisonous Lies: The Croydon Arsenic Mystery written by Diane Janes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In suburban Croydon over a period of ten months during 1928-9, three members of the same family died suddenly. A complex police investigation followed, but no charges were ever brought and the mystery remains officially unsolved. In the eighty years which followed, the finger of suspicion has been pointed at one member of the family after another: now, using the original police files and other contemporary documents, Diane Janes meticulously reconstructs these astonishing events and offers a new solution to an old murder mystery.