Crippen: A Novel of Murder
Paperback Published on: 29/09/2011
Price: £10.99
Synopsis
July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, have vanished, much to the frustration of Scotland Yard and the outrage of a horrified London.
Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose sets sail on its two week voyage to Canada. Amongst its passengers are the overbearing Antonia Drake and her daughter Victoria, who is hell-bent on romance, the enigmatic Mathieu Zela and the modest Martha Hayes. Also on board are the unassuming Mr John Robinson and his seventeen-year-old son Edmund. But all is not as it seems...
Publisher information
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- ISBN: 9780552777438
- Number of pages: 512
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 34 mm
- Weight: 344g
- Languages: English
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Crippin
I love all John Boynes books as they take you back to a time in history that really happened and tells a story around that event. Crippen was one of these ... READ MORE
Super read
Read as part of the Transworld Reading Challenge.
Written by John Boyne, the author of The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas. Not quite sure what kind of read to ... READ MORE
Wonderful!
London 1910. Music hall singer Cora Crippen's dismembered body is discovered buried beneath the cellar floor of the home she shared with her husband, Dr Ha... READ MORE