The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith

This book is well written and exhaustively researched...I found it quite refreshing in a world in which non-fiction authors are expected to 'slant' material in order to excite a jaded audience. ~Amazon.co.uk

An authoritative account...He tells an engrossing tale of romance and drama...' ~The District Messenger

This case has it all – class, gender, the whiff of scandal and a whodunnit, all wrapped up in the hypocrisy of the legal system of Victorian Scotland' ~Professor Emeritus David Wilson

absolutely compelling' ~Evening Times

a meticulous overview of the evidence' ~Sunday Herald

if you are… interested in true-life Victorian crime, then this is definitely the book for you' ~Graham Drew, Dundee Courier

The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith… now lays bare the whole saga including the infamous letters, the pathology reports and the trial testimony' ~Nadia Vidinova

This book is well written and exhaustively researched...I found it quite refreshing in a world in which non-fiction authors are expected to 'slant' material in order to excite a jaded audience' ~Khrysserx, Amazon.co.uk