A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
A portrait of the era and an evocation of 1950s club life in all its seedy glamour, A Fine Day for a Hanging sets Ruth's gripping story firmly in its historical context in order to tell the truth about both her timeless crime and a punishment that was very much of its time.
A forensically researched book [that] casts a haunting new light on the last woman to be hanged in Britain * Daily Mail *
Worthy of Truman Capote -- Laurence Marks, playwright and screenwriter
Wonderful. . it will become the standard reference on Ruth Ellis -- Stewart P. Evans, crime historian
A brilliantly researched epilogue of the doomed relationships that produced two children and one divorce and Ellis's catastrophic final days . . . All the compelling detail is here in Lee's overwhelming story, which puts Ellis's life into perspective * Camden New Journal *
Worthy of Truman Capote -- Laurence Marks, playwright and screenwriter
Wonderful. . it will become the standard reference on Ruth Ellis -- Stewart P. Evans, crime historian
A brilliantly researched epilogue of the doomed relationships that produced two children and one divorce and Ellis's catastrophic final days . . . All the compelling detail is here in Lee's overwhelming story, which puts Ellis's life into perspective * Camden New Journal *
Carol Ann Lee is an acclaimed biographer and has written extensively on the Holocaust. Her most recent publications are Evil Relations, the story of David Smith, chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murder case, and the bestselling One of Your Own, which focused on the life and death of Myra Hindley.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780576237 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780576234 |
| Title | A Fine Day for a Hanging |
| Author | Carol Ann Lee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2013 |
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