Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson - Softcover

Weis, René

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140294627 ISBN 13: 9780140294620

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

Edith Thompson and her young lover were tried in 1922 for the murder of Edith's husband and eventually sentenced to death. Rene Weis's riveting book Criminal Justice tells this amazing story and a new film, Another Life, brings the story to the big screen in March.

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Synopsis:

Since her execution at Holloway prison in 1923, Edith Thompson has haunted the conscience of the nation. Grave doubts were expressed at the time about the extent to which she was responsible for her husband's murder in Ilford by her handsome young lover Frederick Bywaters. The Home Office files on the case were marked not to be opened for 100 years. The case against her rested largely on the evidence provided by 70 letters which she wrote to Bywaters. The truth is that these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of an overwrought romantic imagination, ultimately unable to free itself from the constraints of a suburban marriage and respectability. Through this correspondence and a painstaking reconstruction of the era, the author argues that Mrs Thompson was innocent.

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Starring Natasha Little (Vanity Fair), Ioan Gruffud (Hornblower, 102 Dalmatians) and Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0140294627
• ISBN 13: 9780140294620
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384