A Man and His Mother-in-Law

By
- Roy Vickers
With:
- John Telfer
Publisher
- Soundings

3 Ratings: 4.7
Series: 8 of 48
Duration: 1H 10min
Language: English
Format
Category: Short stories

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Murder by the Book. After Arthur Penfold’s wife reveals she is leaving him to care for her ailing aunt, he sets upon a path of murder and deceit to avoid the social embarrassment of a second marital breakdown. But the purchase of a poetry book triggers a sequence of events that begins to unravel both Arthur and a seemingly open-and-shut murder case.

Release date

Audiobook: 2 March 2022

A Man and His Mother-in-Law

By
- Roy Vickers
With:
- John Telfer
Publisher
- Soundings

3 Ratings: 4.7
Series: 8 of 48
Duration: 1H 10min
Language: English
Format
Category: Short stories

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Murder by the Book. After Arthur Penfold’s wife reveals she is leaving him to care for her ailing aunt, he sets upon a path of murder and deceit to avoid the social embarrassment of a second marital breakdown. But the purchase of a poetry book triggers a sequence of events that begins to unravel both Arthur and a seemingly open-and-shut murder case.

Release date

Audiobook: 2 March 2022