Two brothers. Two different journeys. The same hope of a magnificent future.
At twenty-nine, Jake D' Arcy has finally
I am your maid.
I know about your secrets. Your dirty laundry.
But what do you know about me?
Molly the
Ginny is devastated by the death of her mother, her two little brothers & her sister
- but her father is destroyed by the
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham & Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters & are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, & becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience. In the dark opening months of the First World War, Britain became engrossed by ' The Brides in the Bath' trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the backdrop to a murder story whose elements were of a different sort. This was evil of an everyday, insidious kind, played out in lodging houses in seaside towns, in the confines of married life, & brought to a horrendous climax in that most intimate of settings
- the bathroom. The nation turned to a young forensic pathologist, Bernard Spilsbury, to explain how it was that young women were suddenly expiring in their baths. This was the age of science. In fiction, Sherlock Holmes applied a scientific mind to solving crimes. In real-life, would Spilsbury be as infallible as the 'great detective'?