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Overview'Gripping, gothic and deeply poignant' - Mail on Sunday Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, number 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable boarding house, whose tenants felt themselves to be on the rise in Victorian London. But beneath this genteel veneer lay a murderous darkness. For on 9th May 1879, the body of a former resident, Matilda Hacker, was discovered by chance in the coal cellar. The ensuing investigation stripped bare the dark side of Victorian domesticity, revealing violence, sex and scandal, and became the first celebrity case of the early tabloids. Someone must have had full knowledge of what had happened to Matilda Hacker. For someone in that house had killed her. So how could the murderer prove so elusive? In this true story, Sinclair McKay meticulously evaluates the evidence and, through first-hand sources, giving a gripping account that sheds new light on a mystery that eluded Scotland Yard. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sinclair McKayPublisher: Quarto Publishing PLC Imprint: Aurum ISBN: 9780711255838ISBN 10: 0711255830 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 06 July 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface – The Dislocation of the Dead 1 The Day Before 2 ‘There Is Something in the Cellar’ 3 The Man from X Division 4 A City of Disappearances 5 ‘I Am Not a Judge of Human Bones’ 6 Superior Apartments in a Quiet Home 7 ‘A Mass of Light-Coloured Ringlets’ 8 The Canterbury Dolls 9 The Book of Dreams 10 ‘No, Not Me’ 11 The Brothers Bastendorff 12 The New Age of Light 13 He Kept Company with Her 14 The Boiling Bones 15 ‘Everything Was Sweet’ 16 ‘It Was Not My Place’ 17 ‘Working Women Like Herself’ 18 Avowed Admirers 19 ‘The Expected Child’ 20 ‘Oh God! What a Sight Met My Gaze!’ 21 She Had No Character 22 ‘I Have Disgraced You Before all the Country’ 23 ‘I Depend Upon My Character’ 24 ‘Such a Strange, Brotherly Part’ 25 Disintegration 26 A Length of Washing Line 27 The Stain That Would Not Go Notes Picture Credits Afterword: A Bloomsbury and Somers Town Walk Afterword Two: Illustrated Murder and Mayhem! – The Victorian Press Selected Further Reading Acknowledgements BiographyReviewsAuthor InformationSINCLAIR MCKAY is the acclaimed author of history and historical true crime including the best-selling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park. HIs previous Aurum titles include Mile End Murder, The Lost World of Bletchley Park,The Secret Life of Fighter Command and The Secret Listeners for Aurum, as well as histories of Hammer films and the James Bond films. He writes features for the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday and lives in London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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