The Littlehampton libels : a miscarriage of justice and a mystery about words in 1920s England /
Littlehampton in the 1920s was menaced by a bizarre poison-pen case, which required the attention of a leading Metropolitan Police detective, and resulted in four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished. The Littlehampton Libels untangles this mystery story, exploring the inner...
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Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue: Reopening the case
- Beach town
- Easter and after
- A craze for this sort of thing
- Will you let me have that letter
- A case of handwriting
- Circumstances grave and unusual
- Keeping observation
- The perfect witness
- Bad language
- It is not my verdict
- Epilogue: Brought to book
- Conclusion.