Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold (Penguin, 2026)
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Hallie Rubenhold’s Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen (ISBN: 9780857527318). Rubenhold’s central tenets is that ‘No murderer should ever be the guardian of their victim’s story’. In her previous book, The Five, she told the stories of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper; in her new book, she tells us about the lives of the women caught up in the life of Hawley Harvey Crippen. It sets the context, shifts the emphasis and causes the reader to think beyond the story of a sensationalised murderer.