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Airing in a Closed Carriage

Airing in a Closed Carriage

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This title is part of our3 for 2 offeron British Library Fiction.She said once she heard some people told to get an airing in a...

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This title is part of our3 for 2 offeron British Library Fiction.

She said once she heard some people told to get an airing in a closed carriage and that her life had been like that, trying to get fresh air, but always closed up, in a box.”

As warm sunshine bathes the streets of Paris in the late 1800s, the lively young debutante May meets the cotton-broker John Tyler. Far from a picturesque romance, life with the boorish broker turns sour as they move to Manchester and May finds herself trappedin a world of hostile servants and neglect. When Tyler meets his end from an overdose of arsenic the drug which he was so fond of prescribing himself as a kind of panacea May is dragged into a trial coloured by the publicshungerto paint her as a beguilingmurderess.

Based on the real-life murder trial of FlorenceMaybrickin 1899,thisnovel spinsthe gripping tale of a case clouded by sensation,its unsolved mysteries,and the untold story of thehuman beingat its heart.First published in 1943, it was filmed asThe Mark of Cainin 1947.

Part of the Crime Classics series.

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