Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders - Couverture souple

Thompson, Laura

 
9781784082468: Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1784082465 ISBN 13 : 9781784082468
Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2018

Synopsis

'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun.

On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters, a twenty-year-old merchant seaman who had been Edith's lover. When the police learned of his relationship with Edith, she was arrested as his accomplice, despite protesting her innocence. The remarkably intense love letters Edith wrote to Freddy – some of them couched in ambiguous language – were read out at their trial for murder at the Old Bailey. They would seal her fate: Edith and Freddy were hanged for the murder of Percy Thompson in January 1923. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so?

In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what the trial and execution of Edith Thompson tell us about perceptions of women in early twentieth-century Britain.

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À propos de l?auteur

Laura Thompson is the author of several critically acclaimed works of non-fiction. Her first book The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing won the Somerset Maugham Award. Rex V. Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award. She has written biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, A Different Class of Murder about the Lord Lucan scandal, The Last Landlady about her grandmother, and the New York Times-bestselling Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters.

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Éditeur
Head of Zeus
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1784082465
ISBN 13 
9781784082468
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781784082444: Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders

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ISBN 10 :  1784082449 ISBN 13 :  9781784082444
Editeur : Apollo, 2018
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