Calvert Again!

Sometimes, as a true crime writer, a case takes hold of you and won't let go. This is the situation with one of the chapters in my book, Murder in Mind. In that, I deal with the Leeds case of Louie Calvert, hanged at Strangeways in 1926 for the murder of her friend and landlady. I still believe that she was not guilty of murder.
This week, the BBC series Murder Mystery and My Family deals with the case. I cannot say anything about the new verdict reached on the programme, but what I can say is that the Calvert case opens up the very heart of crime stories and why they will not leave us alone once we have them in our imaginations.
I suggested the case to the BBC and unfortunately I did not actually appear on screen, but for anyone living or working in central Leeds, have a think next time you walk on the Leeds-Liverpool canal, think about a five-feet tall woman, weighing little more than a box of cornflakes, supposedly carrying a man to the canal after braining him to death. For one thing, the current flows the wrong way in relation to the place where the body was found.
I'll be writing my own book on the case - then maybe I'll open up some new thinking.
Meanwhile, I've just completed a novel based on Louie's life and I'll be asking my agent to find me a publisher.