Keith Miller

The case of the ‘Hay Poisoner’ inspired many a cosy murder mystery

The respectable provincial solicitor found guilty of murdering his wife with arsenic was a godsend to the Golden Age crime novelists

Herbert Rowse Armstrong with his wife Katharine, whom he was found guilty of poisoning in 1922. [Getty Images]
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  • The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery

    Stephen Bates

    Icon Books, pp. 336, £18

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