Ergebnis für "Murder by the Book" in Historisch

He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world. Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible and the desperate. But the discovery by Australian police in 1892 of the body of one of his wives in a shallow concrete grave triggered one of the greatest manhunts in history and exposed a further series of grisly murders that stunned the Victorian era.

A young and devout woman is thrust into a drama she never anticipated. In a matter of weeks, she is the victim of adultery, rape, and the murder of her husband, in an attempt to cover up the perpetrator's crime. Then, her first-born son - the result of her rape - dies at seven days of age. How can she survive the emotional impact of these losses in her life? What would have devastated, incapacitated, and made most women bitter was the starting point of the life of one of the most infamous women in history.