Antidote to venom
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Publisher: The British Library
Published: 2015
Place of publication: United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780712357791
Subjects: Joseph French (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police; Murder; Investigation; Poisoning; Murderers
Description: "Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle"--Times Literary Supplement 'He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing' - Daily Mirror George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality - and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals? This ingenious crime novel, with its unusual 'inverted' structure and sympathetic portrait of a man on the edge, is one of the greatest works by this highly respected author. The elaborate means of murder devised by Crofts's characters is perhaps unsurpassed in English crime fiction for its ostentatious intricacy.