viii 308 pages. The pages are tanned, adn there is a neat ownership inscription on the front end paper, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. "When Ethel Griggs dies suddenly in the Victorian country town of Omeo in January 1928, rumours about her husbands? blatant affair with Lottie, the lovely 20-year-old daughter of local grazier and Methodist elder, Jack Condon, are rife. So rife that despite a doctors? certificate suggesting natural causes, police order Ethel Griggs? body to be exhumed and the young mother of 11-month-old baby. Alwyn is found to have died from arsenic poisoning. Her husband, the Rev. Ron Griggs, the districts Methodist minister, is charged with her cruel and heartless murder."