The Wimbledon Poisoner

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This story had the makings of something good but unfortunately i feel it should be left in the 90’s .... Or perhaps it's the whole Wimbledon-ness of it. I haven't been to Wimbledon, except to stand in a humungous queue to get into the tennis, and have no idea what intrinsic character that suburb possesses, but it's almost as if the area counts as a separate character , and there's a whiny voice saying 'if you lived here you'd understand'. Well I don't, and I don't. Loose Women star looks completely UNRECOGNISABLE in horrifying costume for Halloween special... but can you guess who it is? The problem with this poisoning business was that the preliminary research was horribly incriminating. One minute there you were asking casual questions about arsenic and the next there was your wife throwing up and having her hair fall out. People would put two and two together."There was an initial attempt to delay sentencing when the prisoner’s family tried to claim insanity. This appeal did not succeed. Wimbledon is synonymous with suburbia – the capital’s best known suburb simply because of a tennis tournament. It lies in south-west London at the end of the tube’s District Line. If there’s anything else Wimbledon is known for, it’s Nigel Williams’s ‘Wimbledon trilogy’. Of these the first The Wimbledon Poisoner – the story of solicitor Henry Farr’s clumsy attempts to kill his wife – is the most well-known. Williams adapted it for BBC television (it starred Robert Lindsay and Alison Steadman). The most renowned of his dozen or more novels, it is the epitome of the author’s curiously ambiguous take on suburban life.

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