The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2011
Summary
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham, and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common: they are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience.
In the dark opening months of the First World War, Britain became engrossed by The Brides in the Bath trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the back…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848541092 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848541090 |
| Author: | Jane Robins |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 21mm |
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‘A riveting and beautifully written book. A high point in the annals of murder, for every necessary ingredient - callousness, ruthlessness, mystery, recklessness, boarding houses, detection, a chase, money, sex and even a bit of glamour - is present. Miss Robins has made a thumping good book out of it’. - Sunday Telegraph
‘In Jane Robins’ excellent The Magnificent Spilsbury - part-whodunit thriller, part-social history, part-biography - there’s delight in the detail.. This is a pacy page-turner underpinned by meticulous primary source research. Frankly, it’s a treat.. as satisfying as a fine thriller’. - The Scotsman‘Robins’s description of the murders and of Smith’s persuasive personality is gripping. The Magnificent Spilsbury teems with promise’. - Sunday Times‘As well as being a gripping, pacy account of a gruesome murder trial, this book is also a compelling piece of social history. Robins… shines a light on a dark age for women’. - Independent on Sunday‘Not just a compelling read but it also an intriguing slice of social history’. - The ExpressHere Jane Robins gives us that story in all its tingling horror - Sunday TelegraphJane Robins’s account of this classic murder story is riveting - Mail on SundayAbout The Author
Jane Robins
Jane Robins is a distinguished writer and journalist. Her first book, Rebel Queen was a critically acclaimed account of the trial for adultery of Caroline of Brunswick by her husband, King George IV.
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