Story of a murder : the wives, the mistress, and Dr. Crippen / Hallie Rubenhold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenhold, Hallie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--England--London--History--20th century.

Murder.

Crippen, Cora, -1910.

Crippen, Cora.

Le Neve, Ethel, 1883-1967.

Le Neve, Ethel.

Crippen, Hawley Harvey, 1862-1910.

Crippen, Hawley Harvey.

Murderers--Great Britain.

Murderers.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 496 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Wives, the mistress, and Dr. Crippen

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Dutton, 2025.

Summary:

Reexamines the infamous Crippen Murder through the perspectives of three women: Dr. Crippen's first wife Charlotte, his mistress Ethel, and Belle Elmore, whose death propelled the case, offering a fresh, multifaceted view of their lives and roles in a crime that captivated Edwardian society.

On February 1, 1910, the vivacious, diamond-adorned music hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her home, causing alarm among her friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild. Their demands for an investigation would lead to the unearthing of a gruesome secret and trigger a fevered international manhunt for Belle's husband, medical fraudster Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. Ethel Le Neve, Crippen's typist and lover, who fled with Crippen in disguise, has always hidden in the shadows of this tale--was she really just "an innocent young girl" in thrall to a powerful older man? And was there an equally sinister story behind the death of Crippen's first wife, Charlotte?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-473) and index.

Other Format:

Online version : Rubenhold, Hallie. Story of a murder: the wives, the mistress, and Dr. Crippen.

ISBN:

9780593184615

0593184610

OCLC:

1506181825