Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary And she's white

And she's white

Gwen Raverat describes her late Victorian Cambridge childhood

in a life of crime

The government's security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary And she's whiteAugustus 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