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technomage's review
2.0
Reading this fictionalized account of the life of Dr Crippen including the events around his wife's death I was reminded of Evan Hunter(Ed McBain)'s novelisation of the Lizzie Borden case. Both suffer from the same problem that the ending in both cases is known and while initially the accounts of Crippen's life are well written and engaging by the time it comes to the remains in the cellar being discovered and Crippen and Ethel de Neve are forced to flee it has all become too much an I admit I skimmed over the last part to get it over with. If you no nothing of the case this would be a good account of it but I don't think it adds much more than I knew before.
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