The Belting Inheritance: British Library Crime Classics (Book 2) John Austin two weeks before his nineteenth

two weeks before his nineteenth birthday

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The Belting Inheritance: British Library Crime Classics (Book 2) John Austin two weeks before his nineteenthLady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Belting, claiming to be the missing David Wainwrightwho was not killed after all, but held captive for years in a Russian prison camp. With Lady Wainwright's health fading, her inheritance is at stake, and the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long lost son. Belting is shadowed by