A step-by-step account of the true crime when solicitor Herbert Armstrong from Hay-on-Wye was accused of poisoning his wife using arsenic; a box of poisoned chocolates was also discovered. The wife certainly died from arsenic: sufficient to kill her was found in her corpse exhumed ten months later. There was certainly arsenic in the chocolates though no-one ever discovered who sent them. Armstrong was convicted, in a trial in which the judge rode roughshod over the rules, and hanged.
This book covers all the details in chronological order but comes to no new conclusions; indeed, the author seems determined to avoid speculation. This makes the narrative rather pedestrian.
Selected quotes:
- "They also found two used condoms in a drawer under the washstand and several unused packets in other parts of the house" (Ch 8)
October 2022; 299 pages
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