The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides In the Bath by Jane Robins

Apr 27, 2012 Meaghan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This was excellent. The story of George Joseph Smith's life and crimes is interesting enough by itself (I wrote about him in a guest entry for the blog Executed Today), but Robins also did a good job putting the story in its proper historical context.

Women were supposed to be wives and mothers, and the general belief was that if a girl wasn't married or at least engaged by the time she was in her mid-twenties, there was something wrong with her. It was also very difficult for a single woman to s...more This was excellent. The story of George Joseph Smith's life and crimes is interesting enough by itself (I wrote about him in a guest entry for the blog Executed Today), but Robins also did a good job putting the story in its proper historical context.

Women were supposed to be wives and mothers, and the general belief was that if a girl wasn't married or at least engaged by the time she was in her mid-twenties, there was something wrong with her. It was also very difficult for a single woman to support herself. Due to World War I, emigration to the colonies, and the fact that more females survived infancy than males, there was a shortage of men in Britain. (Kind of like how it is in present-day China, except the other way around.) All of this meant that women were desperate to marry, and "old maids" like Margaret Lofty, Bessie Mundy, and Alice Burnham could be talked into marrying a near-stranger within weeks, or even days, of meeting him. Anything was better than being single forever. Even Alice, who was at 25 still relatively young, and who had a thriving career as a nurse, thought that. They were the only women he killed but they were not his only victims; Smith made a living out of talking desperate spinsters into marrying him, robbing them of whatever cash and valuables they possessed, and then walking out and vanishing from their lives. He bigamously "married" at least eight women.

The book is not just about crime and women's studies, though: people who are interested in forensics will get a lot out of this book as well. Bernard Spilsbury was a celebrity forensic pathologist (yes, really, that is not an oxymoron) and his testimony was the crux of the prosecution's case. The book talks about other famous murder cases which he helped investigate. Yet he has become a controversial figure: looking back a century later, we can see that many of Spilsbury's methods were unscientific and he was often just plain wrong. This was not because the man was incompetent or lazy -- he was a very intelligent man and a dedicated scientist -- but simply because it was the nineteen-teens and his field was in its infancy.

I am very glad I read this book, not only because it was a great read but because it turns out I made some errors in the above-mentioned Executed Today entry I wrote about George Joseph Smith, and with the book I will correct them. If you want to know more about Spilsbury, there are a couple of biographies of him including:

Colin Evans's The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
Douglas Browne's Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases
Andrew Rose's Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Honorary Pathologist (less)

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Aug 08, 2011 Sam Woodfield added it · review of another edition

I reviewed this book for a major book seller pre-release and as a lover of true crime, I really enjoyed it. However, thats not to say that a non-crime fan would not enjoy this read as Robins gives a facinating insight into Britain 100 years ago, and manages to write true crime in a novel-like way making some of the scientific (in the Georgian sense of the word) content much easier to digest.

The lives of Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham & Margaret Lofty are explored in some depth by Robins, showin...more I reviewed this book for a major book seller pre-release and as a lover of true crime, I really enjoyed it. However, thats not to say that a non-crime fan would not enjoy this read as Robins gives a facinating insight into Britain 100 years ago, and manages to write true crime in a novel-like way making some of the scientific (in the Georgian sense of the word) content much easier to digest.

The lives of Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham & Margaret Lofty are explored in some depth by Robins, showing the innocence and desparation of women from an era when marriage was the making of a woman and thus not finding a husband seen as a smear upon ones character. In this context, it is easy to see how these women were taken in by what Robins describes as a charming yet slightly sinister character that was George Smith. The exploration of these characters and the research that Robins has clearly done really do draw the reader into the world, and understand the manner in which these women came to meet their death.

Also, as someone who is interested in forensic science and pathology, the discussion of the scientific techniques used by Bernard Spilsbury is intruiguing and it really shows how far science and technology has come in the space of a century. The methods used by Spilsbury are highly primative and would certainly not stand in a modern court. I really is a facinating, yet slightly concerning,

insight into the birth of modern forensics.

There really is a lot to like about this book. The simple style used by Robins make it read almost like a novel, and the connection that Robins makes with other well known cases (such as Dr Crippen) and world events occurring at the time, really puts this book into some context giving not only a great account of a case which shocked Britain when it was committed, but also an insight into the world as it was, giving this book a social history edge which is really interesting.

The only thing I felt this book lacked slightly was more of an insight into Spilsbury himself. Although his methods and techniques were highly regarded in his time, there is little discussion in the book as to the mentality and thoughts of a man who really did change the face of

forensic science which really would have made this an even better read for me.

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Nov 07, 2012 Damaskcat rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This marvellously readable book is much more about Bernard Spilsbury’s work than his life. The framework used for it is the chronology of the famous ‘Brides in the Bath’ case in which George Joseph Smith disposed of three of his wives by drowning in order to collect their savings and their life insurance. It is the story of a conman in an age when respectable young women were desperate to marry and have their own homes rather than be left to eke out a miserable and lonely existence in a boarding...more This marvellously readable book is much more about Bernard Spilsbury’s work than his life. The framework used for it is the chronology of the famous ‘Brides in the Bath’ case in which George Joseph Smith disposed of three of his wives by drowning in order to collect their savings and their life insurance. It is the story of a conman in an age when respectable young women were desperate to marry and have their own homes rather than be left to eke out a miserable and lonely existence in a boarding house or as a poor relation in the homes of their male relations.

The descriptions of Spilsbury’s painstaking work to understand the dead bodies on which he worked and how they met their death make compelling reading. While the book mainly follows the development of the Brides in the Bath case it also covers some of his other cases such as that of Dr Crippen and the Armstrong poisoning case. Spilsbury first came to public attention in the Crippen trial but it was the Brides in the Bath which made his name. Thereafter he was regarded as infallible and it may be that there were some miscarriages of justice because a jury would assume that if Splisbury was involved the accused must be guilty.

But it is not Spilsbury himself who dominates the book – it is George Joseph Smith. I did not know much about the case before I read this book and I was intrigued to learn about the way he was finally caught. Newspapers featured his last murder – that of Margaret Lofty – as a human tragedy and that caused relatives of his previous victims to write to the police at Scotland Yard. The letter landed on the desk of Detective Inspector Arthur Neil who was sufficiently intrigued by the coincidences to investigate further.

The book raises some interesting points about the development of science and its application to the detection of crime. What is regarded as irrefutable fact at one point in history may subsequently be proved to be completely wrong at a later date. Ideas of what information should be given to the pathologist before the post mortem is carried out have changed completely since the early days of Spilsbury’s career.

If you are interested in true crime then you will enjoy this book. There are notes on each chapter and a bibliography though no index in the e-book edition which I read and no illustrations.
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Mar 30, 2011 Jane rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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In June 1915 Britain was at war, and yet a different story filled the front pages of the newspapers and captured the public imagination. The story of the trial of George Smith. He stood accused of marrying a young woman and then drowning her as she bathed. On three occasions.

The three young women were swiftly dubbed “the brides in the bath”, and it is they, not George Smith and not the Magnificent Spilsbury, who are at the heart of this book.

Bessie Mundy. Alice Burnham. Margaret Lofty.

Three ver...more

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Jul 29, 2010 Nancy Oakes rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, historical-true-crime

As England was heading into and then in the beginning years of World War I, within the short space of three years, three women, all of whom had married George Joseph Smith (who used multiple aliases) died while taking a bath. Each individual death had been legally attributed to natural causes after proper inquests, the doctors finding no evidence of foul play. But early in 1915, Detective Inspector Arthur Neil from the Kentish Town police station was going through his workload and came across an...more As England was heading into and then in the beginning years of World War I, within the short space of three years, three women, all of whom had married George Joseph Smith (who used multiple aliases) died while taking a bath. Each individual death had been legally attributed to natural causes after proper inquests, the doctors finding no evidence of foul play. But early in 1915, Detective Inspector Arthur Neil from the Kentish Town police station was going through his workload and came across an official memo, attached to which were two newspaper cuttings. The first was headlined as "Found Dead in Bath, Bride's Tragic Fate on Day After Wedding;" the second as "Bride's Sudden Death in Bath. Drowned After Seizure in a Hot Bath." It seems that the father of the now-dead Alice Burnham, who had married Smith in 1913 and died in the bath during her Blackpool honeymoon, had seen a news article about Margaret Lofty, a young, newly-married woman who drowned in her bath in Highgate, and brought the similarities between the death of his daughter and Margaret to the attention of the Aylesbury police. They brought it to the attention of Scotland Yard, who sent it to Neil. As official investigations proceeded, and the story became public, another police department informed Neil of yet a third possibility, that of Bessie Mundy, who had also been found dead, again drowned during a bath.

Jane Robins recreates and analyzes the case, drawing from a multitude of modern and contemporary sources. One by one she takes the reader through the three victims lives, how they came to meet George William Smith, and why the women may have been drawn to him, considering that this man was such bad news. Interwoven with their stories, Robins sets the stage in terms of historical context, including contemporary social attitudes and psychology, current events, the current state of police procedure, and traces the science of forensic pathology, which was still in its early stages as a tool for crime solving. She introduces her readers to Dr. Bernard Spilsbury, a forensic pathologist whose work on the Hawley Crippen case of 1910 helped to send Crippen to the gallows after his return from his interrupted escape to Canada. Spilsbury returns to the stand again as a prosecution witness, with his professional theories about what happened in the cases of the Brides in the Bath. As in the Crippen case, his opinions also led the jury to a verdict of guilty and to a death sentence for Smith. But was Spilsbury's opinion accurate? Was it indeed reflective of what had actually happened to these women? Would his evidence hold up in a modern court of law?

The Magnificent Spilsbury is a pleasure to read, both in terms of the period and because of my absolute fascination with historical true crime. It's quite obvious that Robins did a great deal of research, poring over old trial records, letters, documents, police records as well as examining relevant modern sources. Her constant interweaving of contemporary events and writings allows her to analyze her findings, rather than just setting them all down in a purely factual manner, always asking questions and putting forth a great deal of effort to answer them. She's also able to bring the case and the principals involved to life through her writing, especially Smith and the women he victimized. My only complaint is that at times there may have been a bit too much period detail, as in the three pages of discussion about zeppelins, that proved to be a bit distracting, causing me to want to skim and move along to get back to the story at hand. But overall, it's a very good book and one I would definitely recommend. (less)

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Jul 31, 2012 Caroline rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This book charts one of the most famous murder cases of the era George Orwell called 'our great era in murder', roughly 1850 to 1925 - the Brides in the Bath. I had heard of this case before, but I didn't know very much about it. I certainly didn't know the extent of George Smith's victimisation of women, the number he had married and abandoned, not just murdered.

Robins intersperses each chapter narrating the course of Smith's crimes with a chapter about Bernard Spilsbury and his evolution into...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Ali rated it 4 of 5 stars

I actually picked this book up at a recent bookcrossing meet up here in Birmingham, telling myself grumpily that I didn’t need any more books and I really shouldn’t be taking anything else home with me. Well I am glad I ignored that inner voice – because I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

The Magnificent Spilsbury is an enormously readable historical true crime book. Well written and researched it is a truly fascinating page turner. A must for fans of historical murder mysteries and Sherlock Holmes...more I actually picked this book up at a recent bookcrossing meet up here in Birmingham, telling myself grumpily that I didn’t need any more books and I really shouldn’t be taking anything else home with me. Well I am glad I ignored that inner voice – because I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

The Magnificent Spilsbury is an enormously readable historical true crime book. Well written and researched it is a truly fascinating page turner. A must for fans of historical murder mysteries and Sherlock Holmes stories, for although this is a work of non-fiction it sits perfectly alongside such fictional works.
With her descriptions of boarding houses, courtrooms and the sad desperate plight of women who remained unmarried in their thirties, Jane Robbins brings the Edwardian period to life. In 1910 a woman named Bessie Mundy married a man calling himself Henry Williams. Bessie was the first of three women who “drowned” in their baths. Henry Williams was in fact George Joseph Smith – a seemingly cold calculating man who preyed upon young women desperate to escape their single lives. When family members of his other wives Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty read about the tragic death of a bride in her bath they were suspicious enough by the coincidence to contact the police. Inspector Neil was sure that although each husband went by a different name – they were in fact the same man – and it didn’t take him long to prove it. The police though, then, as now needed the help of forensic scientists to gather evidence and understand their findings. Forensic science as we think of it though was in its infancy – and Jane Robins does an excellent job in detailing how forensic science had at that time in England been successful, and where it had fallen down.
Bernard Spilsbury – later to become Sir Bernard Spilsbury was already a rising star of the forensics world when George Smith was meeting and marrying Bessie Mundy. Setting his work, the justice and forensic world in context – Jane Robins relates some of the events surrounding the case of Dr Crippen – a case in which Spilsbury was one of the expert witnesses. Following the case of the brides in the bath – Spilsbury became an almost legendary figure – his testimonies as an expert witness in court virtually uncontested. Seen by the newspaper reading pubic as a real life Sherlock Holmes – he was even involved in a WW2 conspiracy to send inaccurate information to Hitler. Spilsbury certainly had a remarkable career, and I am sure that modern forensics owes much to him. However in her afterword Jane Robins charts the sad decline of the legendary Spilsbury – and raises a few questions about his science.
This book was certainly as gripping as any historical thriller – maybe more so – as it is a true story. I found myself fully investing in the lives of Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty – the photographs of these sad young women really helping to bring them to life.

There does seem to be a lot of these types of book around now – is there a genre for historical true crime? I suppose there must be – I have to admit I have added one or two others to my Amazon wish list – for possible kindle download later this year – they could easily become my new guilty pleasure.
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Mar 09, 2010 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This non-fiction book tells fascinating story of the 'real life' Sherlock Holmes - Dr Bernard Spilsbury, and how forensic science emerged into the world of the police. Jane Robins is a writer and journalist.

The Brides In The Bath case fascinated the whole of England and the book covers each case in detail. It is fascinating to read of how these women all fell under the spell of one clever con-man and how unmarried women of those times were so desperate to become wives that they all gave up their...more

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Apr 05, 2011 Josette rated it 5 of 5 stars

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The infamous 'Brides in the Bath' murders of Edwardian England, gripped the country and brought to its attention one Bernard Spilsbury; Home Office pathologist and the 'father of modern forensics'. This book relates the story of the murders, the people involved in bringing the murderer to justice, and the burgeoning role forensic science was beginning to play in criminal trials of the time.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book; it's so well written that it reads like a piece of superb detective fiction...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Dawn rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I bought this book at The Secret Book & Record Store in Wicklow Street, Dublin to soothe my crime drama appetite in the days leading up to the new season of Sherlock on BBC. I was roped in by the promise of a face-off between a dastardly Edwardian serial killer and a founding father of forensic science, the "real life Sherlock Holmes," Sir Bernard Spilsbury. It's a swift and solidly entertaining read, but it lacks the energy and allure of Erik Larson's Thunderstruck. The difference is that J...more

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Sep 02, 2012 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'd heard of this book in a Financial Times review years ago and finally bought it online from a UK bookseller since I couldn't get it in the US. It was too quick a read. I enjoyed the alternating chapters between true crime from 1914 and the beginning of forensic science. I also liked the way the author developed the social environment of the times, describing women's rights and social systems in England at the time. It was entertaining and I learned a lot. I've already recommended it to others...more

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Dec 12, 2010 Rose rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In the summer of 1915, the British public experienced a temporary, if morbid, diversion from the horrors of World War I. George Smith, a middle-aged serial bigamist who was accused of drowning three wives for their money between 1912 and 1914, stood trial for murder. The Fleet Street dailies christened it the Brides in the Bath case.

Smith targeted spinsters who were considered past marriageable age. Their gratitude at finding a husband in a world unfriendly to single women weakened their instinc...more In the summer of 1915, the British public experienced a temporary, if morbid, diversion from the horrors of World War I. George Smith, a middle-aged serial bigamist who was accused of drowning three wives for their money between 1912 and 1914, stood trial for murder. The Fleet Street dailies christened it the Brides in the Bath case.

Smith targeted spinsters who were considered past marriageable age. Their gratitude at finding a husband in a world unfriendly to single women weakened their instincts and made them willingly give him control of their assets. After marrying Bessie Mundy (1912), Alice Burnham (1913), and Margaret Lofty (1914), he rented lodgings with a bath and had each wife make out a will and purchase life insurance, in both instances naming him as the beneficiary. Once all papers were signed, he convinced them that they were ill enough to see a doctor. Then Smith allegedly drowned them while they were soaking in the tub, using the recent doctor’s visit to suggest that the women had fainted from ill-health and died accidentally.

The inquests on all three women each absolved Smith of wrongdoing, but his use of the same modus operandi –a bathtub drowning in a boarding house- finally aroused the suspicion of Alice Burnham’s father. But Smith’s conviction was not guaranteed, especially since three inquest juries had seen fit to turn him loose. The Crown turned to eminent forensic scientist Bernard Spilsbury, whose talent for collecting and accurately assessing post-mortem evidence was unparalleled. His testimony withstood the barrages of the eminent Sir Edward Marshall Hall, who represented the defendant, and sent Smith to the gallows in August 1915.

The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath skilfully intertwines the new century’s most sensational domestic murder case to date and the evolution of scientific principles in murder investigations. Spilsbury asserted that George Smith had murdered the three women by suddenly grabbing and lifting their legs, forcing their heads under water and preventing any outcry that other lodgers might hear. His medico-legal testimony at the trial likened him to the deductive literary hero Sherlock Holmes, and the awestruck jury found Smith guilty.

But was he?

Author Jane Robins points out that Smith was an undisputed bigamist, but was he actually a murderer? He had married several women between 1908 and 1914, some of whom testified at the trial, and while he maltreated and robbed all of them, only three died. While the powerful similarity between the deaths of Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham, and Margaret Lofty make his guilt probable, Robins debates whether he would have been executed if tried today. It’s an interesting question- perhaps a skilled defense lawyer would have raised enough reasonable doubt in a modern courtroom to gain Smith a lesser sentence.
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Oct 25, 2012 VAle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

preso in biblioteca

Cronaca dai primi del Novecento.
Mentre l'Europa è dilaniata dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale, in Inghilterra si indaga su una serie di omicidi che a primo avviso non sembrano tali.
Un affresco dell'epoca, tra scienza e costume, un saggio agile e scorrevole sull'affermazione della medicina legale nei tribunali.
Interessante, anche se la forma-saggio non lo rende appassionante come un giallo.

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Apr 17, 2010 Fatatat rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A well crafted factual rendition of the birth of forensic science in England. The author presents this historical novel jammed full of fact in an easy to read and immensally interesting way with almost no bias or subjectivity, Allowing the readers mind to wander and interpret as they wish.
While reading this book I could easily imagin these events actually happening and found it hard to put down. Captivating

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Jan 28, 2011 Andrea rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Historical true crime... dastardly narcissistic and controlling man... women desperate to be married... class revenge... this book has it all. I read it in one day and enjoyed every minute of it. I did like the way the author interspersed the stories of the poor women's lives and deaths with the growth / re-emergence of forensic science in the court's witness box. I thought she re-created the essence of pre-war Britain very well.

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Dec 28, 2011 " rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really liked this book. It is full of details about the cases and the development of new techniques of forensics. I learned that if you pull someone's legs up while they're in the bath, they will die instantaneously because of the shock.

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Jan 01, 2013 Becca Haynes rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this book and the cases of the Brides in the Bath and Dr Crippen Sir Bernard Spilsbury worked on. Fascinating cases, fascinating book. I highly recommend.

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May 13, 2013 Ffiamma rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

saggio piuttosto interessante sul patologo spilsbury che aiutò nelle indagini su casi di annegamento di giovani donne nelle vasche da bagno delle case che avevano affittato. più che di medicina legale, si parla dei costumi dell'epoca (soprattutto i condizionamenti sociali che influenzavano potentemente il sesso femminile), di alcuni famosi casi di cronaca nera che sconvolsero l'inghilterra all'inizio del 900. la robins racconta minuziosamente gli omicidi e descrive la figura di un truffatore e a...more

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Feb 18, 2011 Jo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history, non-fiction, true-crime

The mysterious case of the Brides in the Bath, women who died suddenly after they were wed. Interspersed with a kind of biography of Bernard Spilsbury, the man considered the 'Father of Forensics'. Simply written with little sensationalism, the author presents the facts and explores the advancement of science in crime fighting. Interesting read.

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May 05, 2012 Terri Cornwall rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I chose this as I wanted to know more about the start of forensic science but there was far to much detail about what was happening elsewhere in world events and what was excepted of women in those days. I personally found this distracting from the crimes themselves and didn't enhance the book in anyway.

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Feb 22, 2011 Deanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history, non-fiction, true-crime

Very good factual accoumt of the crimes, the trial and Sir Bernard Spilsbury's involvement.

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Jun 06, 2011 Helen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: forensic, historical, true-crime

Interesting read, featuring crimes very much of their time. I already knew of 'the Brides in the Bath', but it was good to get some in-depth background on the cases, and to ponder what motivated Smith, and the poor women who were fooled by his dubious charms. Made me very grateful to be a woman in the 21st century, and not around in the early 20th century!

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Nov 23, 2011 Michael Flanagan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history

A well written and interesting book covering a serious of murders and the start of the career of Bernard Spilsbury the father of modern forensics. The book is well balanced but for me seemed to lack something I could not quite put my finger on.

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Apr 13, 2011 Desiree rated it 3 of 5 stars

Interesting. The behind-the-scenes of early 20th century forensics, and though it is a report on real facts, it is writting in such a way as to be very captivating and interesting. Definitely a book to read

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Jan 26, 2013 Jim rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Very well researched true story of the 'Brides in the bath' murders. The early days of forensic science and its use in catching criminals.

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