The Pimlico Murder: The Strange Case of Adelaide Bartlett

The nineteenth century has provided true crime writers and their enthusiastic readers with some of the most fascinating murder cases in criminal history. One of the most intriguing is that of Adelaide Bartlett which remains officially unsolved thus adding a special appeal to the readers of True Crime.On 17th April, 1886, an attractive young woman called Adelaide Bartlett walked free from the dock at the Old Bailey, cleared of the charge of murdering her husband by administering a lethal dose of liquid chloroform. Sir James Paget, who was Sergeant-Surgeon to Queen Victoria at the time, was said to have Bartlett was no doubt quite properly acquitted, but now it is hoped that in the interests of science she will tell us how she did it!'This book gives full coverage of this extraordinary case and suggests a possible identity of Adelaide's mysterious 'natural' father, a man of wealth and prestige in Victorian England.'Whether on the theory of guilt or innocence, the whole story is marvellous.' The Times, April 1886[from the back cover]