The apprentice of Split Crow Lane : the story of the Carr's Hill Murder
Housham, Jane2016
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Gateshead, April 1866. Five-year-old Sarah Melvin was walking along Split Crow Lane looking for her father when she disappeared. Later that night a couple walking home from the pub tripped over her body. Sarah was the child of Irish immigrants who had been drawn to the North-east in search of work. Poor, perceived with prejudice, they quickly came under suspicion of killing their own child. The true murderer was a misfit whose social awkwardness stopped him ever rising above apprentice. He would eventually make clear exactly why he killed Sarah - and the reason would scandalise the whole country, yet to him had a dreadful logic.
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Author:
Housham, Jane, author
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London : riverrun, 2016.
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368 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781786481580 (hbk)9781786481597 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
364.1'523'092
Language:
English
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BRN:
5705
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