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1004074034

The jigsaw murders.

Author: Craddock, Jeremy.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Talking book - MP3

Classification: 364.1523

Publisher: Rearsby: Clipper Audiobooks, 2022.

ISBN: 9781004074037 (sound media playe

Notes:

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble.

In September 1935, Dr Buck Ruxton strangled his wife Isabella, while their three children slept in their beds. When the nanny, Mary Rogerson, disturbed him in the act, he killed her too. To hide his crimes, he dismembered and chopped up the bodies, removing any distinguishing features, before he disposed of them in a ravine on the Scottish borders. It took the genius of Professors Sydney Smith and John Glaister, and their groundbreaking forensic techniques, to piece together the identities of the bodies. And when the finger of suspicion finally pointed at Ruxton, he acquired the services of the most famous lawyer in the land, Norman Birkett QC, who, against all the odds, had successfully defended the man accused of the Brighton Trunk Murders the previous year...