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.
| ISBN: | 9781784081904 |
| Publication date: | 13th July 2017 |
| Author: | Paul Thomas Murphy |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
True crime |