Once again along this tour we meet some truly memorable characters, most of them pretty awful but, oh so entertaining for being so. What struck me most was how much the social rules of the time seem to have played a part in the actual discovery of the murder and the interaction between the friend who first reported her suspicions to the hapless constable at Scotland Yard was one of my favourite scenes.
So yes there is tension, as much about how having started the story with the underdog Crippen we were going to get to the finale of the hanging. But most of all the and the journey both on land and at sea was exceptionally entertaining. I listened to this book in audio format, it had been on my TBR since January but regular readers will know i repeatedly struggled with listening rather than reading.
Well this collection of thirteen poisoners was a good way to round off a year that has seen me fascinated with the poisoner. Adrian Vincent has found a selection of those who chose poison as a way of getting rid of unwanted people in the UK and the US. This book was originally published in but has recently been republished by Endeavour Press. Each murderer, or more accurately suspected murderer is given a short chapter that goes into varying amounts of detail of their crime and punishment.
The author mentions famous expert witnesses, my favourite Bernard Spilsbury appears three of the trials and he also lists the crown prosecutor, the defence counsel and the judge in many of the trials.
Sometimes an attorney who appears as junior counsel in one trial is promoted to become chief counsel at a later date, all of which a poisoner nerd like myself found fascinating.
The author has a somewhat off-hand but insightful tone which I have to confess made me smile more than once, as illustration I am using his insight into Jean Pierre Vaquier, a new-to-me poisoner who struck in in Byfleet Surrey at the local tavern, the Blue Anchor. Jean Pierre visits a chemist in London for strychnine which he claimed was for his wireless experiments:.
Wanker, an odd choice for a false name. But it raised no eyebrows from Mr Bland, who gave Vaquier the strychnine without further comment. Poor Mr Jones was found to have died of strychnine poisoning and Dr Carle informed the police.
However the story also flips forwards in time to the ship the SS Montrose where John Robinson and his seventeen year old son Edmund board in Antwerp to make the journey to Canada to start a new life. John Robinson is a Doctor and the pair travel first class. The journey across the Atlantic was probably my favourite part of the whole book. The passengers included the most hideous Antonia Drake and her spoilt daughter Victoria as well as the far more balanced Frenchman Mathieu Zela travelling with his nephew and the unassuming Martha Hayes.
There are moments of almost farcical nature as despite the plan to keep a low profile John Robinson is in high demand to socialise with his fellow passengers, as is young Edmund.
Once again along this tour we meet some truly memorable characters, most of them pretty awful but, oh so entertaining for being so. What struck me most was how much the social rules of the time seem to have played a part in the actual discovery of the murder and the interaction between the friend who first reported her suspicions to the hapless constable at Scotland Yard was one of my favourite scenes.
So yes there is tension, as much about how having started the story with the underdog Crippen we were going to get to the finale of the hanging. But most of all the and the journey both on land and at sea was exceptionally entertaining. I listened to this book in audio format, it had been on my TBR since January but regular readers will know i repeatedly struggled with listening rather than reading.
A book lover who clearly has issues as obsessed with crime despite leading a respectable life View All Posts. Like Like. Like Liked by 1 person. And I give Boyne credit for making the story really interesting and engaging, despite the fact that we know how it ends. That takes skill. I agree with you, too, about Dancing For the Hangman. One thing they have in common is the exploration of the social history.
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