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  • Woman at the Devil's Door

  • The Untold Story of the Hampstead Murderess
  • Written by: Sarah Beth Hopton
  • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
  • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Woman at the Devil's Door

Written by: Sarah Beth Hopton
Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
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Publisher's Summary

On October 24, 1890, a woman's mutilated and lifeless body was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated, her face crushed and bloodied, and her head almost completely severed from her body. A mile away a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate. The dead baby's body, hidden beneath a nettle bush, was not located until the following morning.

So began the incredible story of the Hampstead Tragedy.

Eventually, Scotland Yard knocked on the door of 2 Priory Street, home to Mary Eleanor Pearcey, the pretty 24-year-old mistress of the victim's husband, whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman, and whose dying request was as bizarre and mysterious as her life.

The first full-length examination of the extraordinary case, Woman at the Devil's Door is a thrilling look at a notorious murderess and the webs she wove.
©2018 Sarah Beth Hopton (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing
True Crime True Crime Women
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Interesting

It's interesting to see the differences between the legal system then (1890) and now. She was condemned to hang and was actually hanged about 2 and half weeks later. Now it takes them years to actually execute someone. I'm not entirely convinced that she actually committed the crime. She was very stoic. Quite the strong woman.

The narrator pronounced some of the words wrong which was really weird, but overall she wasn't too bad.

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Boring

I tried , really tried but found this very boring.
There was way too much description of non necessary information and hardly any story.

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