Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary misleads himself through his conventional

misleads himself through his conventional desire for marriage and fatherhood

A woman is found dead in London in the 21st century where serial killing has reached epidemic proportions

In the midst of this Bartholomew is called to examine two corpses

When his oldest and best friend is murdered

Gwen Raverat describes her late Victorian Cambridge childhood

Sweet Poison Author Forename:Mary misleads himself through his conventionalAugustus Gale was a man in love in love with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. This macabre devotion poisoned both his own life and the lives of those around him: his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined obsession, and when a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, they were met with blunt and contemptuous