• ISBN13: 9781901091724
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Breese Books
• Publisher Imprint: Breese Books
• Publication Date: October 18, 2019
• Pages: 164
• Original Price: USD 11.5
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 195 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Murder / General

Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American doctor in London, 1910. Devoted to his wife, music-hall performer Belle Elmore. He said she left him to go to her lover in America.

If she did, why did she not send a single word to her host of friends? And why could they find no record of her taking a ship?

Then Dr. Crippen announces her death in California. But when police from New Scotland Yard came calling, he changed his story: "So far as I know, she did not die, but is still alive." And then he fled, with his younger mistress dressed as a boy.

What did Sherlock Holmes and the police find in the tiny coal cellar at Crippen's North London home? How was Crippen tracked down, in a 3,000-mile sea-chase across the Atlantic to Canada? And why did Chief Inspector Walter Dew call it all "the crime of the century"?