Chianti Flask Publisher / NewSouth Publishing Zoe Buckman with Hank Willis

Zoe Buckman with Hank Willis Thomas

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How did constellations help early seafarers sail safely across the vast Pacific

Chianti Flask Publisher / NewSouth Publishing Zoe Buckman with Hank WillisAn 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 couples servant in the witness box, the flask disappeared the night Fordish died and all attempts to trace it have come to nothing. The jury delivers its verdict, but this is just the end of the beginning of Marie Belloc Lowndes