The Pershore Poisoners

Download or read book The Pershore Poisoners written by Kerry Tombs and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1890: In the Worcestershire market town of Pershore, at Talbots' Lodging House, a recently arrived guest dies in mysterious circumstances. Detective Inspector Samuel Ravenscroft and his colleague, Constable Tom Crabb, are called in to investigate, and are presented with accusations that the dead man was poisoned - a theory borne out by circumstantial evidence. Then a second guest is killed: arsenic is suspected in both deaths, and the policemen's enquiries begin to unearth long-buried secrets. Meanwhile, an old case from Ravenscroft's past threatens to cast a shadow over the present...