Paul Thomas Murphy

A vivid and violent investigation into the first unsolved murder case of the Victorian Era which involved a pregnant maid in the house of the renowned Pook family. April 26th, 1871. In one of London's remotest beats a brutalized young woman is found kneeling in the muddy road, her face smashed and battered. The woman muttered "let me die, " slipped into a coma, and died five days later. She was Jane Maria Clouson, sixteen-year-old servant to the...