The Massingham Affair
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| Author | Edward Grierson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus (UK) Doubleday (US) |
Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Massingham Affair is a 1962 crime detective novel by the British writer Edward Grierson.[1] Grierson based on the story on a real-life case that took place in Edlingham. in the late nineteenth century.[2]
Many years before an elderly vicar and his daughter were the victims of a violent robbery. Two local men were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. Now, Justin Derry, working as a solicitor in the village decides to reopen the case and exonerate the accused, despite the hostility that ensues from the villagers.
