Story of a Murder : The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold (pre-order signed indie edition)

27^th March 2025  a new book by No.1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, Hallie Rubenhold will be published. Available to pre-order now.

This is a fascinating feminist retelling of the historical true-crime story of infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen in Edwardian England, brought to justice by an extraordinary group of music hall women.

We will have a limited number of independent signed special edition with sprayed edge and ribbon.

No murderer should ever be the keeper of their victim's story …On 1 February, 1910, vivacious music hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home, causing alarm among her circle of female friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild who demanded an immediate investigation.

They could not have known what they would provoke: the unearthing of a gruesome secret, followed by a fevered manhunt for the prime suspect: Belle’s husband, medical fraudster, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. Hiding in the shadows of this evergreen tale is Crippen’s typist and lover, Ethel Le Neve – was she really just ‘an innocent young girl’ in thrall to a powerful older man as so many people have since reported?And what is the story behind the death of Crippen's first wife, Charlotte, who died so quietly, never to be heard of again?In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, prizewinning social historian Hallie Rubenhold gives voice to those who have never properly been heard – the women. Featuring a carnival cast of eccentric entertainers, glamorous lawyers, zealous detectives, medics and liars, STORY OF A MURDER is meticulously researched and multi-layered, offering the reader an electrifying snapshot of Britain and America at the dawn of the modern era