# A Capital Crime

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- Authors: [Laura Wilson](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-wilson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-03-03

## Description

An outstanding historical crime thriller based on real-life events: the framing of Timothy Evans for murders committed by notorious serial killer John Christie. It is winter, 1950 in a dingy part of London. John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter, and for DI Ted Stratton of West End Central, it promises to be a straightforward case. When Davies recants, blaming respectable neighbour Norman Backhouse for the crimes, nobody, including Stratton, sees any reason to believe him. Davies is convicted and hanged, but later, after a series of gruesome discoveries, Stratton begins to suspect that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. Her marriage in tatters, ex-MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is determined to start a new life, but, despite a promising beginning, she soon finds herself in trouble both financially and emotionally. And with a seemingly unstoppable killer of women on the loose, she is very vulnerable indeed. A Capital Crime is a story of guilt, longing, uncertainty, and grotesque horror.

## Editions

### A Capital Crime

- Publisher: quercus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5738-357-0
- Published: 2011-03-03
- Language: en_GB

### A Capital Crime

- Publisher: quercus
- ISBN: 978-18-4916-310-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-03-03
- Language: en_GB