Story of a murder : the wives, the mistress and Doctor Crippen
Rubenhold, Hallie2025
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On 1 February, 1910, vivacious music-hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home. Her circle of female friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild, raised the alarm with the police. They could not have known what was to unfold: the unearthing of a gruesome secret, followed by a fevered manhunt for Belle's husband, medical fraudster, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. Hiding in the shadows of this evergreen tale is Crippen's typist and lover, Ethel Le Neve. Was she really just 'an innocent young girl' in thrall to a powerful older man? And is there an equally sinister story behind the death of his first wife, Charlotte? In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, prize-winning social historian Hallie Rubenhold gives voice to those who have never properly been heard - the women.
Main title:
Story of a murder : the wives, the mistress and Doctor Crippen / Hallie Rubenhold.
Author:
Rubenhold, Hallie, author
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2025.
Collation:
xvi, 494 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780857527318 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
364.152309364.152B CRI RUB364.1523364.1523092364.152 RUBE364.152309 RUB364.1523 RUB
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4910087