RUTH ELLIS The Last Woman to be Hanged

Paperback. Reissue. It was the most discussed murder since the war. Millions of people all over the world debated passionately whether Ruth Ellis, the blonde mother of 2 young children, should hang for the shooting of her lover, motor-racing driver David Blakely. The most unconcerned person, apparently, was Ruth Ellis. She smiled when sentenced to death and told her friends and family that she was happy to die. But one thing did trouble her. On the eve of her execution she wrote to a friend. 'I am quite happy with the verdict but not the way the story was told (in court) there is so much that people don't know about'. Would the full story have saved Ruth Ellis? Why did she not tell it herself at the Old Bailey? The author reveals for the first time the full, secret, background to the story of the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Illus. + Index. 192pp. p/back. Review copy with loosely inserted slip. With signs of b/plate removal inside fr. cover, lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.