A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson Contributor(s): Thompson, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1681778718 ISBN-13: 9781681778716 Publisher: Pegasus Crime
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws - Social Science | Penology |
Dewey: 364.152 |
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.1" W x 9" L (1.35 lbs) 448 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2018 Booklist 11/01/2018 pg. 5 Publishers Weekly 11/05/2018 |
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Publisher Description: A riveting account of the notorious "Ilford murder" by the New York Times bestselling author of The Six The death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual crime, if not innocent according social concepts of femininity. A Tale of Two Murders is an engrossing examination of the Ilford murder, which became a legal cause ce le bre in the 1920s, and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. On the night of October 3, 1922, as Edith and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with Edith, she--who had denied knowledge of the attack--was arrested as his accomplice. Her passionate love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate, even though Bywaters insisted Edith had no part in planning the murder. They were both hanged. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what a troubling case tells us about perceptions of women, innocence, and guilt. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Laura: - A writer and freelance journalist, Laura Thompson won the Somerset Maugham award for her first book, The Dogs, and is also the author of The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters, was a New York Times bestseller and Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, also published by Pegasus. She lives in London. |
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