A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson - Hardcover

Thompson, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681778718 ISBN 13: 9781681778716

Verlag: PEGASUS BOOKS, 2018

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The death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual crime, if not innocent according social concepts of femininity.A Tale of Two MurdersWhen the police discovered his relationship with Edith, shewho had denied knowledge of the attackwas arrested as his accomplice. Her passionate love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate, even though Bywaters insisted Edith had no part in planning the murder. They were both hanged. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so?In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what a troubling case tells us about perceptions of women, innocence, and guilt.

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A writer and freelance journalist, Laura Thompson won the Somerset Maugham award for her first book, The Dogs, and is also the author of the critically acclaimed biography of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold Climate. Her most recent book, The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters, was a national bestseller.

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• Verlag: PEGASUS BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1681778718
• ISBN 13: 9781681778716
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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