Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
Author(s): Kate Colquhoun
In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class carriage on the 9.45pm Hackney service of the North London railway. At Hackney, two bank clerks entered the carriage and discovered blood in the seat cushions; also on the floor, windows and sides of the carriage. A bloodstained hat was found on the seat along with a broken link from a watch chain. The race to identify the killer and catch him as he flees on a boat to America was eagerly followed by citizens both sides of the Atlantic. Kate Colquhoun tells a gripping tale of a crime that shocked the nation.
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Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2011.
(A) thrilling book, which reads at times like a good Victorian novel... an utterly compelling did-he-do-it Sunday Times Deploying her skill as a historian, Colquhoun turns a single curious murder case into a fascinatingly quirky portrait of the underside of mid-Victorian London. I found it unputdownable Daily Telegraph Kate Colquhoun is a fine, robust writer who makes the most of its every twist and turn Mail on Sunday With a storyteller's instinct for colour and suspense Kate Colquhoun has brilliantly recreated the five-month period from Thomas Briggs' death to Muller's execution Daily Express Kate Colquhoun's irreproachable unpicking of the case is meticulous, patient, thorough and measured Independent
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Abacus
- : 0.305
- : 31 January 2012
- : 196mm X 127mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 384
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Kate Colquhoun
