«Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane» by Paul Thomas Murphy
«Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane» by Paul Thomas Murphy
English | ISBN: 9781784081881 | EPUB | 3.9 MB
English | ISBN: 9781784081881 | EPUB | 3.9 MB
In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud – her face cruelly slashed and her brains protruding from her skull.
The girl was Maria Jane Clouson, a maid for the respectable Pook family, and who was pregnant at the time of her death. When the blood-spattered clothes of the 20-year-old Edmund Pook, alleged father of the dead girl's unborn child, were discovered, the matter seemed open and shut. Yet there followed a remarkable legal odyssey full of unexpected twists as the police struggled to build a case.
Paul Thomas Murphy recreated the drama of an extraordinary murder case and conclusively identifies the killer's true identity.