The murder that shocked the Edwardians
The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of “The Scapegoat: the Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham” (Fourth Estate).
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