Julie Wallace

[Ironmiller]

Ordered and looking forward to reading it, good read eagerly anticipated

Thank you
Steve

[Marko]

I'm looking forward to it Mark especially as I wasn't expecting a new book on the case.

Thanks! I've been writing it for many years.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Thanks!

I'm looking forward to it Mark especially as I wasn't expecting a new book on the case.

[Marko]

I’ve got it on order.

Thanks!

[Herlock Sholmes]

I’ve got it on order.

[Marko]

My book is out on 20th January 2021 - the 90th anniversary of the murder.

https://mangobooks.co.uk/products/checkmate-the-wallace-murder-mystery

[sdreid]

Bruce Robinson was supposedly thinking about writing a screeplay for a new Wallace Case movie but decided to write the 127th, or whatever, Ripper book instead.

[caz]

Cheers Robert. I'd love to see a new docu-drama on the Wallace case.

There have been some good real crime dramas made in recent years based on the Lucan case, Harold Shipman (James Bolam is chillingly good), John George Haigh (A is for Acid starring Martin Clunes) and so on.

Love,

Caz
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[Robert]

A few TV progs, Caz :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herbert_Wallace

[caz]

Two questions if I may:

Has there ever been a film, tv doc or drama based on this case?

Which book would be the best to get hold of?

Thanks in advance chaps or chapesses!

Love,

Caz
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[Mayerling]

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/wallace.html

Very interesting site - well illustrated too. Thank you.

[Robert]

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/wallace.html

[caz]

I'm not sure a specific motive is needed, or ever likely to surface, if this was indeed a case of domestic murder.

With no children as witnesses, who knows what goes on between husband and wife behind closed doors? Husbands can verbally abuse wives for decades, and wives can nag away at husbands from day one, without anyone suspecting a thing - until the abused spouse can take no more and takes drastic and unexpected measures to end it for good. While the abuse is ongoing it can be too humiliating for either party to admit to any problems outside the home. They can often come across as the perfect couple when in company with family or friends.

If it all ends in murder, and there is no confession, the killer is unlikely to spill the beans about the true nature of the relationship.

Love,

Caz
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[Hatchett]

It could have been that a crack had appeared in their "comradeship." Perhaps she had grown disrespectful towards him. Perhaps nothing that great in today's world where people tend to have so many outside interests. But in that cloying isolated house that they lived in, it could have reached gigantic betrayal proportions in Wallace's mind.

[miss marple]

Of course, seventy year olds today are much younger and fitter, I know plenty of young seventies, with plenty of vim and fun lives, but seventy was old in the 1930s. A woman of that age would have been regarded as an old lady. The reverse situation could apply to Wallace, perhaps being unfit he worried about what what happen to Julia if he died. Poison could be easily traced so is not an option.

I don't go with the idea had because Wallace was sick and middle age he could not have been a murderer. Domestic murderers have no template. Plenty of quite respectable middle aged men and women have committed murders. Wallace spent a two years in Cacutta, an experience so different from his English life. He may of been aware of th Hindu practice of Suttee where the grieving widow is thrown on the funeral pyre of her husband. He may have been worried about Julia being left behind with no financial support.
It is interesting to speculate on the motives of Wallace if one believes he was responsible, which is all I am doing.

This case continues to fascinate.

Miss Marple