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message 1: by Gary (last edited Apr 05, 2026 04:01AM) (new) - added it

Gary | 493 comments please update 9780712369107 with these missing details

page count - 494 (plus a blank page and a page of adverts in my copy of this edition)

publisher - British Library

Publication date - 10th March 2026

synopsis - “She said once she heard some people told to get an airing in a closed carriage and that her life had been like that, trying to get fresh air, but always closed up, in a box." As warm sunshine bathes the streets of Paris in the late 1800s, the lively young debutante May meets the cotton-broker John Tyler. Far from a picturesque romance, life with the boorish broker turns sour as they move to Manchester and May finds herself trapped in a world of hostile servants and neglect. When Tyler meets his end from an overdose of arsenic – the drug which he was so fond of prescribing himself as a kind of panacea – May is dragged into a trial coloured by the public’s hunger to paint her as a beguiling murderess. Based on the real-life murder trial of Florence Maybrick in 1899, this novel spins the gripping tale of a case clouded by sensation, its unsolved mysteries, and the untold story of the human being at its heart. First published in 1943, it was filmed as The Mark of Cain in 1947.

Title, author, format and barcode are correct.


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Gary | 493 comments Requested this over a month ago.
Can it be actioned please


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Gary | 493 comments I requested this 3 months ago.
Can it be actioned?


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Gary | 493 comments Requested this back in March - can it be actioned please.


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Gary | 493 comments requested this 5 months ago - can it be actioned


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