Pretty Jane and the viper of Kidbrooke Lane : a true story of Victorian law and disorder
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Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957-
Published
New York : Pegasus Crime, 2016.
ISBN
9781605989822, 1605989827
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London (England) -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Murder victims -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Police -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
Pook family.
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Published
New York : Pegasus Crime, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781605989822, 1605989827

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-263) and index.
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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.
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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 Pooks, a respectable Greenwich family. Hours after her death her master's son, Edmund, was arrested for her murder. Murphy creates a gripping narrative of the police procedural and the ensuing legal drama, with its many twists and turns, from the discovery of the body until the final judgment-- and applies contemporary forensic methods to this Victorian cold case

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, P. T. (2016). Pretty Jane and the viper of Kidbrooke Lane: a true story of Victorian law and disorder (First Pegasus Books cloth edition.). Pegasus Crime.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957-. 2016. Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder. New York: Pegasus Crime.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, Paul Thomas, 1957-. Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder New York: Pegasus Crime, 2016.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Murphy, P. T. (2016). Pretty jane and the viper of kidbrooke lane: a true story of victorian law and disorder. First Pegasus Books cloth edn. New York: Pegasus Crime.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, Paul Thomas. Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder First Pegasus Books cloth edition., Pegasus Crime, 2016.

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