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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.
| Published | 13 Jul 2017 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781784081904 |
| Imprint | Head of Zeus |
| Illustrations | 1 x 8pp b&w illustrations |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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