Fred and Edie was a novel about a British couple executed for whose murder?
Fred and Edie 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.
John Billington (executioner) John Billington (1880 – October 1905) was an English executioner. He was on the Home Office list from 1901 to 1905.