Paul Thomas Murphy
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In November 1878, America's greatest painter sued England's greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won-but ruined himself in the process. The painter: James Abbot MacNeill Whistler, whose combination of incredible talent, unflagging energy, and relentless self-promotion had by that time brought him to the very edge of artistic preeminence. The critic: John Ruskin, Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University, whose four-decades' worth of prolific...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A vivid and violent investigation into the first unsolved murder case of the Victorian Era which involved a pregnant maid in the house of the renowned Pook family.
April 26th, 1871. In one of London's remotest beats a brutalized young woman is found kneeling in the muddy road, her face smashed and battered. The woman muttered "let me die, " slipped into a coma, and died five days later. She was Jane Maria Clouson, sixteen-year-old servant to the...