![]() “It is almost an unparalleled thing for a person of Ld William’s rank, to be killed like that. “This is really too horrid!” the young Queen Victoria wrote in her diary. The murder of an aristocrat in his own bed transfixed all of London. From the acclaimed biographer-the fascinating, little-known. Together with the valet, a young Swiss named François Courvoisier, Sarah climbed the stairs to His Lordship’s chamber only to find his four-poster bed drenched in blood and Lord William’s corpse tucked under the covers, his throat slashed to near-decapitation. A page-turner that can hold its own with any one of the many murder-minded podcasts out there. The maidservant, Sarah Mancer, had arisen early to find the dining and drawing rooms in disarray and the front door unbolted. Early the next morning, screams pierced the exclusive Mayfair neighborhood where his townhouse stood. ![]() ![]() Harman recounts, on the night of May 5, 1840, an elderly aristocrat named Lord William Russell retired to his bedchamber. Nevertheless, its opening scene is the stuff that classic murder mysteries are made of.Īs Ms. ‘Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London” is a work of nonfiction whose author, Claire Harman, is an acclaimed biographer and scholar of British literary culture. ![]()
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