The Postcard Murder: A Judge's Tale

It is 1907 Edwardian London, as social revolution and psychiatry pose new questions for the Law and for the first time the Media is co-opted to run a killer to ground.

Twenty-two-year-old Emily Dimmock lies murdered in her Camden Town flat, her head all but severed from her body. There is no thread or stain or fingerprint to point to the perpetrator, only a postcard which, after publication nationally in the newspapers, manoeuvres a young artist into the shadow of the scaffold.

This is a vintage whodunit told verbatim by those involved at the time, presided over now by the author, who draws on his experience as a judge at the Old Bailey to get inside the mind of the outspoken but irresolute trial judge of the day.

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