Before the Poison
- Author: Peter Robinson
- Narrator: Simon Prebble
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 13:54:02
Synopsis
Chris Lowndes built a comfortable career composing scores for films in Hollywood. But after twenty-five years abroad, and still quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, he decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. To ease the move, he buys Kilnsgate House, a rambling old mansion deep in the country.
Although Chris finds Kilnsgate charming, something about the house disturbs him, a vague sensation that the long-empty rooms have been waiting for him—feelings made ever stronger when he learns that the house was the scene of a murder more than fifty years before. The former owner, a prominent doctor named Ernest Arthur Fox, was supposedly poisoned by his beautiful and much younger wife, Grace. Arrested and brought to trial, Grace was found guilty and hanged for the crime.
His curiosity piqued, Chris talks to the locals and searches through archives for information about the case. But the more he discovers, the more convinced he becomes that Grace may have been innocent. Ignoring warnings to leave it alone, he sets out to discover what really happened over half a century ago—a quest that takes him deep into the past and into a web of secrets that lie all too close to the present.
Chapters
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001 Before the Poison
Duration: 38min -
002 Chapter 2
Duration: 36min -
003 Chapter 3
Duration: 34min -
004 Chapter 4
Duration: 33min -
005 Chapter 5
Duration: 34min -
006 Chapter 6
Duration: 25min -
007 Chapter 7
Duration: 53min -
008 Chapter 8
Duration: 30min -
009 Chapter 9
Duration: 39min -
010 Chapter 10
Duration: 24min -
011 Chapter 11
Duration: 27min -
012 Chapter 12
Duration: 38min -
013 Chapter 13
Duration: 39min -
014 Chapter 14
Duration: 31min -
015 Chapter 15
Duration: 29min -
016 Chapter 16
Duration: 20min -
017 Chapter 17
Duration: 42min -
018 Chapter 18
Duration: 34min -
019 Chapter 19
Duration: 15min -
020 Chapter 20
Duration: 42min