Mr Marble is in serious debt desperate for money to pay his familys bills until the combination of a wealthy relative a bottle of Cyanide & a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt & caught in an increasingly dangerous trap of secrets fear & blackmail. Then in a final twist of the knife Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways.. . First published in 1926 C.S. Foresters gritty psychological thriller took crime writing in a new direction portraying ordinary desperate people committing monstrous acts & showing events spiralling terribly chillingly out of control.