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Historian Kate Colquhoun recounts the absorbing tale of addiction, deception and adultery behind the 'Maybrick Mystery', the murder case that cracked the varnish of Victorian society. Will have readers asking to the last page; did she kill him? Shortlisted for the 2014 CWA Dagger: Non Fiction.
Enlivened by imaginative detail, Colquhoun's lively and perceptive narrative has the reader rooting for the friendless defendant