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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  Sacked
  
  By
  
  Jane Charles
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The characters, places and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not
  intended by the author.
  
  Sacked
  
  Copyright © 2011 by Jane Charles
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any
  electronic or mechanical means—except in the case of brief quotations embodied
  in critical articles or reviews—without written permission.
  
  For more information:
  [janecharles522@gmail.com](mailto:janecharles522@gmail.com)
  
  http://www.JaneACharles.blogspot.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Elizabeth Claywell yawned as her foot hit the landing of the second floor. Her
  charges, five young girls, were barely awake. The nurse would see to their
  breakfast and lessons were hours away. She needed a strong cup of tea before
  she even contemplated teaching.
  
  Images of her uncle telling her that he arranged a marriage merged with images
  of one of his old friends who