Murder at Wrotham Hill

Zusatztext 'Souhami's dissection of the murder is completely engrossing in its insistence that fatality is about fallible human beings' The Times . Informationen zum Autor Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books! and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island! her biography of Alexander Selkirk! or as he is better known! Robinson Crusoe. Zusammenfassung Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. The Crime. The Victim. The Hever Estate. The Criminal. Murder at Wrotham Hill. The Trial. The Executioner. And After. Acknowledgements. Index.

Report

'A brilliantly formulated and well-written account of a tawdry murder that shines a bright light on postwar austerity England' Jenny Diski, London Review of Books. London Review of Books

Product details

• Authors: Diana Souhami, Souhami Diana
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9780857382856
• ISBN: 978-0-85738-285-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 197 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; England, HISTORY / General, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, C 1945 To C 1960