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In April 1871 - a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud - her face cruelly slashed and her brains protruding from her skull. The girl was Maria Jane Clouson - a maid for the respectable Pook family - and who was pregnant at the time of her death. When the blood-spattered clothes of the 20-year-old Edmund Pook - alleged father of the dead girls unborn child - were discovered - the matter seemed open and shut. Yet there followed a remarkable legal odyssey full of unexpected twists as the police struggled to build a case. Paul Thomas Murphy recreated the drama of an extraordinary murder case and conclusively identifies the killers true identity....