Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island, her biography of Alexander Selkirk, or as he is better known, Robinson Crusoe.

'A brilliantly formulated and well-written account of a tawdry murder that shines a bright light on postwar austerity England' Jenny Diski, London Review of Books.

• The Crime. The Victim. The Hever Estate. The Criminal. Murder at Wrotham Hill. The Trial. The Executioner. And After. Acknowledgements. Index.

Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island, her biography of Alexander Selkirk, or as he is better known, Robinson Crusoe.

'A brilliantly formulated and well-written account of a tawdry murder that shines a bright light on postwar austerity England' Jenny Diski, London Review of Books.

• The Crime. The Victim. The Hever Estate. The Criminal. Murder at Wrotham Hill. The Trial. The Executioner. And After. Acknowledgements. Index.

Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island, her biography of Alexander Selkirk, or as he is better known, Robinson Crusoe.

'A brilliantly formulated and well-written account of a tawdry murder that shines a bright light on postwar austerity England' Jenny Diski, London Review of Books.

• The Crime. The Victim. The Hever Estate. The Criminal. Murder at Wrotham Hill. The Trial. The Executioner. And After. Acknowledgements. Index.