Pretty Jane and the viper of Kidbrooke Lane : a true story of Victorian law and disorder /
April 26th, 1871. In one of London's remotest beats, a brutalized young woman is found kneeling in the muddy road, her face smashed and battered. The woman muttered "let me die," slipped into a coma and died five days later. She was Jane Maria Clouson, sixteen-year-old servant to the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Crime,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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| Summary: | April 26th, 1871. In one of London's remotest beats, a brutalized young woman is found kneeling in the muddy road, her face smashed and battered. The woman muttered "let me die," slipped into a coma and died five days later. She was Jane Maria Clouson, sixteen-year-old servant to the Pooks, a respectable Greenwich family. Hours after her death her master's son, Edmund, was arrested for her murder. Murphy creates a gripping narrative of the police procedural and the ensuing legal drama, with its many twists and turns, from the discovery of the body until the final judgment, and applies contemporary forensic methods to this Victorian cold case. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781605989822 1605989827 |