Hallie Rubenhold in Conversation – Daunt Books

Daunt Books welcomes Hallie Rubenhold to Marylebone to speak about her brilliant new book, Story of a Murder.

Hallie Rubenhold is the award-winning author of The Five, acclaimed for her immersive and revisionist histories of women too often lost to the margins. In this gripping new book, she revisits one of the most infamous murder cases of the twentieth century: the disappearance of music hall performer Belle Elmore and the international manhunt for her husband, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen.

On 1 February 1910, Belle Elmore vanished suddenly from her London home, prompting concern among her friends in the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild. Their determination to uncover the truth would expose a gruesome secret and propel the case into newspapers around the world. But beyond the sensational headlines lies a far more complex story. Rubenhold brings into focus the overlooked figures at the heart of the case, particularly Ethel Le Neve, Crippen’s typist and lover, long portrayed as a naïve young woman under his influence. She also reopens questions surrounding the suspicious death of Crippen’s first wife, Charlotte.

Brimming with twists and featuring a vivid cast of performers, detectives, lawyers, medics and fraudsters, Story of a Murder offers a fascinating portrait of Britain and America on the brink of the modern age.

Ticket includes a glass of wine or soft drink.

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