Author: JANE ROBINS
Title: The Magnificent Spilsbury and the case of the Brides in the Bath
Description: John Murray. Paperback. Pp: 294. Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience.nIn the dark opening months of the First World War, Britain became engrossed by - The Brides in the Bath` trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the backdrop to a murder story whose elements were of a different sort. This was evil of an everyday, insidious kind, played out in lodging houses in seaside towns, in the confines of married life, and brought to a horrendous climax in that most intimate of settings " the bathroom.nThe nation turned to a young forensic pathologist, Bernard Spilsbury, to explain how it was that young women were suddenly expiring in their baths. This was the age of science. In fiction, Sherlock Holmes applied a scientific mind to solving crimes. In real-life, would Spilsbury be as infallible as the - great detective`?. ISBN: 9781848541092. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781848541092
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Title: The Magnificent Spilsbury and the case of the Brides in the Bath
Description: John Murray. Paperback. Pp: 294. Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience.nIn the dark opening months of the First World War, Britain became engrossed by - The Brides in the Bath` trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the backdrop to a murder story whose elements were of a different sort. This was evil of an everyday, insidious kind, played out in lodging houses in seaside towns, in the confines of married life, and brought to a horrendous climax in that most intimate of settings " the bathroom.nThe nation turned to a young forensic pathologist, Bernard Spilsbury, to explain how it was that young women were suddenly expiring in their baths. This was the age of science. In fiction, Sherlock Holmes applied a scientific mind to solving crimes. In real-life, would Spilsbury be as infallible as the - great detective`?. ISBN: 9781848541092. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781848541092
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- Book number: 2396977
- Book number: 2396977
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