The Chianti Flask

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Original title: The Chianti flask

earliest edition we have, 2021 British Library Publishing, 2021 paperback

British Library Crime Classics

This is a thrilling courtroom mystery exploring the bitter effects of murder and its aftermath on the accused and those closest to them. An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband Fordish. It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper, but according to the couple’s servant in the witness-box, the flask disappeare...

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The Chianti Flask edition · 2022 · Poisoned Pen Press · 272 pages · 9781464215469
The Chianti Flask paperback · 2021 · British Library Publishing · 9780712353298

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