The Postcard Murder

'A compelling and fascinating tale.' The Times

The year is 1907: 22-year-old Emily Dimmock lies murdered in her Camden Town flat, her head all but severed from her body. With not a thread or stain or fingerprint to point to the perpetrator, only a handwritten postcard which the police publish in the newspapers, a young artist, Robert Wood, is manoeuvred into the shadow of the scaffold.

This is a vintage whodunit told verbatim by witnesses at the time presided over by the author, who draws on his own experience as a judge at the Old Bailey to get inside the mind of the outspoken but irresolute trial judge, Mr Justice Grantham.

It is set in Edwardian London at a crossroads in time, as social revolution and psychiatry posed new questions for the Law and for the first time the Media were co-opted to run a killer to ground.

The result is as compelling today as it is definitive of the era in which the murder was committed.

The book includes two maps and 27 photographs, 10 in full colour.

REVIEWS

'An enthralling account of human frailty and forensic analysis.' Nicholas Hilliard, Recorder of London

'A fascinating reconstruction of one of the most controversial trials ever to have been heard at the Old Bailey A real whodunit brilliantly told which keeps the reader guessing throughout.' William Clegg, author of Under the Wig

'A gripping debut.' Hello Magazine

'A fascinating book that draws you into the murky underworld of Edwardian London and the high drama of a capital trial, meticulously researched and true to the evidence, as well as being a rattling good yarn.' Tom Tyson, The Crime Club

'This is the first in a new series, loved the writing style Very happy to recommend this on to others.' Fiona Sharp, Waterstones Booksellers

'If you're after something rather gritty to sink your teeth into this winter, look no further as The Postcard Murder is the one for you! You end up taking on the role of a 13th juror without possibly even realising it. Trust me when I say this; you will form your own opinions about the crime, and there is a high chance that you will do what I did and end up shouting blue murder I am so excited to read more from Paul Worsley.' The Writing Garnet

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Worsley was for ten years a judge at the Old Bailey, where the Postcard Murder was tried. He now lives in rural North Yorkshire, where as a practising QC most of his murder cases took place. The Postcard Murder is the first in a series of books in which he gets into the mind of the trial judge in order to lay bare Justice as it was understood and dispensed in the manner of the day.

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