# Famous Trials: Unwanted Spouses

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- Authors: [Alex McBride](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-mcbride)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-11-01

## Description

A respectable solicitor in the town of Hay-on-Wye, harried by his troubled wife, slowly and carefully poisons her to death. Pleased with the results, he sees an opportunity for another quick-fix solution and turns his murderous attentions to his business rival... Trapped in a marriage of convenience to an aging man almost thirty years her senior, thirty-eight year-old Alma falls in love with seventeen year-old George, when he answers her advertisement for a 'willing lad' to do the housework. It's the perfect set up - a well-disposed husband and a passionate lover - until George destroys it all by trying to get the husband out of the way... These two classic cases of spousal murder - one chillingly domestic, the other bizarre and touching - took place in 1922 and 1935. In these brilliant reconstructions, they continue to confound our expectations of how murderers are meant to proceed.

## Editions

### Famous Trials: Unwanted Spouses

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-539-9
- Published: 2012-11-01
- Language: en_GB