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On the trail of a Victorian femme fatale

A review of Kate Colquhoun's Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic. An expert non-fiction thriller – as long as you don't mind a little speculation

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic Kate Colquhoun

Little, Brown, pp.419, £18.99, ISBN: 9781408703908

Kate Colquhoun sets herself a number of significant challenges in her compelling new book, Did She Kill Him? Like Kate Summerscale before her, Colquhoun mines the rich seam of legal archives to give her readers the fascinating tale of a Victorian courtroom drama: that of Florence Maybrick, accused, in 1889, of murdering her husband.

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