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The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane

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(1 CD)
Product Number: MPCD2221
Released: 01 Feb, 2017
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510053328
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply into the psyche of the Victorians. What Jane Housham finds, in this exploration of guilt, sexual deviance and madness, is a diagnosis that is still ripe for the challenging. Set around Gateshead, a five-year-old Irish girl named Sarah Melvin sets out over the fell to look for her father and a troubled young man makes a frightening leap of logic to save his own skin.

Author(s): Jane Housham
Genre: Crime, History
Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2017

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Author(s): Jane Housham
Genre: Crime, History
Product Number CX3562
Released: 01 Feb, 2017
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510053311
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Author(s): Jane Housham
Genre: Crime, History
Product Number D5131
Released: 01 Mar, 2017
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510055995

Professional reviews

"The investigation into a Gateshead child murder reveals the Victorians - their classes, their justice and their scandals - as never before. This is an extraordinary story of sexual deviance and murder. In lively, empathic prose, Jane Housham explores psychiatry, the justice system and the media in mid-Victorian England to reveal a surprisingly modern state of affairs."

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