Katie Waldegrave

On the trail of a Victorian femme fatale

A review of Kate Colquhoun's Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic. An expert non-fiction thriller – as long as you don't mind a little speculation

Florence Maybrick and husband James Maybrick, once thought to have been Jack the Ripper Photo: Getty 
issue 15 March 2014

  • Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic

    Kate Colquhoun

    Little, Brown, pp. 419

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