Unsolved London Murders: The 1920s & 1930s (True Crime from Wharncliffe)

Unsolved murders captivate readers due to their shock, mystery, fear, insight. This book provides insight to outdated police methods, and the chance to speculate about the killer’s identity.

In this companion volume to his best-selling Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London, Jonathan Oates selects over 20 haunting cases from the period between the two world wars. These include the shooting of PC James Kelly, violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies, the stabbing of Martial Lechevalier, the strychnine poisoning of Kusel Behr, the arsenic poisoning of a Croydon family, and the gruesome case of unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. Oates’s precise, forensic descriptions shed light on the victims’ lives and evoke the character of London of the times.