THE CAMDEN TOWN MURDER The Life and Death of Emily Dimmock (SIGNED)

Softcover. Revised Edn. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Emily Dimmock was born in Standon, Hertfordshire. She followed the fate of so many poor working class girls, by working as a domestic servant, and then becoming a prostitute in London's Kings Cross. Witnesses last saw Emily alive on the evening of September 11 1907. On the morning of September 12, 1907, the body of Emily Dimmock was found in her rented rooms in Camden Town, London. The murderer has never been identified. This is the story of the victim, along with an account of the times in which she lived, and the circumstances surrounding her death. Is this another crime of the imagination? Recent books have seen parallels between The Camden Town Murder, the Whitechapel killings of Jack the Ripper, and The Peasenhall Mystery of 1902. This is also a social history and an account of the human condition of the people living in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the upper classes and their domestic servants, the labouring poor, the 'fallen women', the music-halls, the artists, and the demi-monde. All these moving against alternating backgrounds of greys, black and crimson, and enraptured with the vapours of wormwood. In 'The Camden Town Murder' the author presents the reader with a modern day investigation of this factual murder mystery, analysing and retracing the events with the story's protagonists, as well as bringing to light vital clues, with the support of previously unpublished letters and a new interpretation of the forensic evidence. Illus., Select Bibliog. and Index. 236pp. trade size soft cover. FLAT SIGNED BY JOHN BARBER. F. with no creasing to covers.