Yesterday the postman brought me a copy of Kate Clarke’s Fatal Affairs (Mango Books, 2016). It’s a compendium of five eighteenth and nineteenth century murder cases where ‘love and romantic infatuation ended in death.’ It features Christiana Edmunds (d. 1907), the Brighton chocolate cream killer who became known as the Venus of Broadmoor. It has a bloodthirsty cover showing James Greenacre holding aloft the severed head of his wife-to-be.
It's the third book I've indexed for Kate, and hopefully there will be one more volume later in the year..
It's the third book I've indexed for Kate, and hopefully there will be one more volume later in the year..
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