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Rubenhold showcases a selection of the grossest comments about Belle from nearer-the-time books about Crippen and whewww, emphasis on ew...
Someone named Leonard Gribble portrays her as an "overweight and overbearing female" who "spent money recklessly on clothes" for "her gross body". Obviously, clothing is a privilege intended only for the slim and attractive. Rest of us gotta go nude.

heh, the detective using "Doyle" as a cover identity's surname... that's a nice touch

- where tf are all her bones then??!

- I do wish there was a timeline in the back, I've lost track of what month events are taking place in. References to "Thursday the 14th" and "Monday the 18th", but no clarification on the 14th and 18th of what

okay. so Ethel has been Crippen's secretary and mistress for abt 8 years. He started "courting" her when she was ~19. He just murdered his wife in order to have Ethel take her place and live openly as a couple.

Ethel, promptly, during their honeymoon, goes out of her way to hire a 17-yr-old French maid.

... I... Where do you think this is gonna go?! THIS DOESN'T END WELL FOR YOU HONEY.

[...] but ultimately, Walter would never escape the shame of knowing that he and his dependants were a 'charity case', at a time when 'receiving handouts', whether from the workhouse or in the form of private philanthropy, was seen as a mark of failure.

"At a time when"? Phrased like those attitudes have changed? Have you seen any media that mentions benefits in the last 2 decades?!

was not expecting to run into the inventor of vibrators, a couple dozen pages into Edwardian England murder book, but uhhh here we are