THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DOCTOR CRIPPEN.

Hardback, 1st edn. A novel. From the Steve Haste (author of 'Criminal Sentences') Crime Faction Collection, with his personal b/plate : 'This novel is based on the Hawley Harvey Crippen case (GB) 1910.' In 1910, Dr. Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve were accused in London of murdering his wife Belle Elmore, the talentles music hall artiste. His capture 'by wireless' across the Atlantic, Belle's remains under the cellar floor in respectable Hilldrop Crescent - her head and bones have not been found to this day - won Crippen his place in the Chamber of Horrors. He is a familiar waxwork - but the author has recreated the man of mystifying personality amid the suavities and savageries of the Edwardian age. 185pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in F. dw.