Book Recommendations

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Do you teach them spelling, grammar and punctuation?

Okay. I admit it. I laughed. Does that make me a bad person?

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[Herlock Sholmes]

I just finished Story Of A Murderer by Halle Rubenhold and I have to give it a big thumbs up. I do have to point out that I know little about the case except for what most people with a general interest in true crime so I’m no judge of the accuracy of her research but it certainly appears to have been well researched. It was well written and an interesting to read and the author certainly gives plenty of background detail without being boring. It’s interesting how Belle Elmore posthumously gained such a terrible reputation. Stereotypes played into it of course with Belle portrayed as the domineering (manlike) unfaithful harridan and Ethel as the innocent maiden duped by the moustache-twirling villain Crippen Did Ethel Le Neve know what had happened to Belle? It’s difficult to see how she couldn’t have without accepting the ‘extreme naiveté’ defence.


This book, to me, smacks of being the ‘last word on the case.’ Though with such a famous case it’s unlikely to be.