Each of these books follows the case of an actual, infamous alleged murder. Flesh and the Devil treats Edward Pritchard
, a surgeon hanged in 1865 for poisoning two women (his wife, and the mother...
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1 January 1886: The first recorded death from chloroform...
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1 January 1886
The first recorded death from chloroform poisoning, that of Edwin Bartlett
, led to his wife Adelaide Bartlett
's sensational trial for murder.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
