title: Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England
author: Paul Thomas Murphy
description: I would like to have been taught by Paul Thomas Murphy. Hes the most free-spirited of scholars.<br /> - <strong>John Sutherland, <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br /><br />An impressive, exceptional, original, and deftly crafted read from beginning to end, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane clearly demonstrates author Paul Thomas Murphy as painstaking researcher who can draw from a diversity of primary sources to produce a gripping and compelling narrative. While Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane is very highly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists of academia and non-specialist general readers with an interest in Victorian England's darker history that this outstanding work is also available in Kindle, as well as in a complete and unabridged Audio Book CD format.<br /> - <strong><em>Midwest Book Review</em></strong><br /><br />Murphy displays a novelists gifts in this fascinating true crime account. Murphy captures the drama of the flawed investigation, and the legal proceedings that followed. His solution to the crimebased on current forensic scienceis likely to be the last word on the case.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />This fascinating account of a Victorian murder, complemented by the added strength of a rich description of the periods society and judicial system, should be a solid addition to academic and true crime collections.<br /> - <strong><em>Library Journal</em></strong><br /><br />Entertaining. This highly readable story still shows the cleverness of the police and the frustrations of prosecutors.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><br /><br />Although Murphy is mainly interested in the advances of forensic science, his lively narrative, with its unambiguous tone of outrage, is also a takedown of the social system.<br /> - <strong><em>New York Times Book Review, Marilyn Stasio</em></strong>
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  ## Anita Davison
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### [About The Bloomsbury Affair](part0002.html#id-2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political
  tensions, and with war looming Flora Maguire wants to keep her family safe.
  
  
  So when her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she’s
  determined not to leave the investigation to the police. Flora has trodden the
  path of amateur sleuth before, but with so much at stake, this time it’s
  personal.
  
  
  Slowly the body of the victim found stabbed on a train bound for Paddington
  starts giving up its secrets, and Flora and her husband Bunny become mired in
  a murky world of spies, communists and fraudsters. And