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A brilliant and violent investigation into the first unsolved murder case of the Victorian period, by the author of the New York Times Well known Book Taking Victoria. On Apr 26, 1871, a police force constable walking one of London's remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young female kneeling over a muddy road - gashes were cloven into her skull, her still left cheek was slashed open up and smashed in, her right eyes was ruined, and above it a chunk of the temporal bone had been bashed out. The policeman gaped in horror as the woman kept out her side before collapsing into the mud, muttering, "I want to die", and slipping into a coma. Five days and nights later she perished, her id still undiscovered. Within hours of her discovery on Kidbrooke Street, scores of the officers of the Greenwich Department were mixed up in investigation, and Scotland Garden had dispatched one of its top detectives, John Mulvany, to lead it. After five days and nights of gathering research, the police learned the girl's id: Jane Maria Clouson, a maid in the house of the renowned Pook family...and she was two months pregnant with Edmund Pook's child when she perished. Murphy carefully reviews the evidence in the light of 21st-century forensic research in order to identify Jane's killer as Edmund Walter Pook. Utilizing a surprisingly abundant assortment of primary sources, Murphy aims to re-create the dilemma of the case as it unfolded, with its many twists and converts, from the discovery of your body to the final crack of the gavel - and beyond.
