Story of a Murder - Rubenhold, Hallie
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**PRE-ORDER: The gripping, groundbreaking historical true crime from the award-winning #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE** __________ In Story of a Murder, bestselling author of The Five and celebrated historian Hallie Rubenhold reexamines the events leading up to the infamous Crippen Murder from the perspectives of the three women at the centre of it all. When Belle Elmore's remains were discovered in the basement of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, North London in July 1910, the larger-than-life Vaudevillian performer was launched into stardom she never achieved on the stage. Story of a…mehr

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**PRE-ORDER: The gripping, groundbreaking historical true crime from the award-winning #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE** __________ In Story of a Murder, bestselling author of The Five and celebrated historian Hallie Rubenhold reexamines the events leading up to the infamous Crippen Murder from the perspectives of the three women at the centre of it all. When Belle Elmore's remains were discovered in the basement of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, North London in July 1910, the larger-than-life Vaudevillian performer was launched into stardom she never achieved on the stage. Story of a Murder provides an intricately plotted, intimate look into the lives of three multifaceted women living during a time of electric progress and stifling limitation: Crippen's first wife Charlotte, who died under mysterious circumstances, his mistress, Ethel, who claimed ignorance of his crime even as she escaped with Crippen disguised as his son, and Belle, the woman whose life Crippen took. Throughout the twentieth century, the infamous 'Crippen murder' was told in such a way as to cast doubt on Crippen''s guilt and to victim-blame his wife Cora, for her own murder. It also astonishingly depicted Crippen''s younger mistress Ethel as innocent of any involvement in the killing of her love rival. But new evidence unearthed by Rubenhold completely subverts this famous history, unravelling assumptions about the crime and deconstructing Edwardian beliefs about women, class aspiration, and the transatlantic world, ultimately proving that Charlotte, Belle, and Ethel were so much more than the passive victims history has portrayed them as.
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Hallie Rubenhold is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder, the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen, has been optioned for TV. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature. She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold