[PAR] [TLE] Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters [SEP] Edith Jessie Thompson (25 December 1893 – 9 January 1923) and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (27 June 1902 – 9 January 1923) were a British couple executed for the murder of Thompson's husband Percy.  Their case became a "cause célèbre". [PAR] [TLE] Fred and Edie [SEP] Fred and Edie is a 2000 epistolary and semi-biographical novel by Jill Dawson.  The novel is loosely based on the murder of Percy Thompson by his with Edith Thompson and, her lover Frederick Bywaters.  The novel develops a sympathetic reading of Edie's understanding of the crime and subsequent incarceration as depicted in her unsent letters to Fred.
[PAR] [TLE] Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters [ SEP ] Edith Jessie Thompson ( 25 December 1893 – 9 January 1923 ) and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters ( 27 June 1902 – 9 January 1923 ) were a British couple executed for the murder of Thompson 's husband Percy . Their case became a " cause célèbre " . [PAR] [TLE] Fred and Edie [ SEP ] Fred and Edie is a 2000 epistolary and semi - biographical novel by Jill Dawson . The novel is loosely based on the murder of Percy Thompson by his with Edith Thompson and , her lover Frederick Bywaters . The novel develops a sympathetic reading of Edie 's understanding of the crime and subsequent incarceration as depicted in her unsent letters to Fred .
Fred and Edie was a novel about a British couple executed for whose murder?
Fred and Edie was a novel about a British couple executed for whose murder ?
Thompson's husband Percy
Thompson's husband Percy