{"product_id":"9780857382832","title":"Murder at Wrotham Hill. Diana Souhami","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore dawn on 31 October 1946, less than a year after the slaughter of World War Two, on a bleak roadside in Kent, a lone woman looks to hitch a lift to London. A lorry driver stops. The encounter ends in murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe victim, Dagmar Petrzywalski, is a gentle eccentric spinster. She had sought the peace of the countryside after her London home was bombed. She is the embodiment of Austerity Britain’s self-sacrifice and thrift. Her murderer, Harold Hagger is its opposite. His life is a litany of petty crimes, deceived wives, sloughed-off identities and army desertions. With their characters so indelibly marked the tragic outcome of their meeting seems determined by fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Murder at Wrotham Hill Diana Souhami dwells on the significance of this crime, and shows that even after the killing of twenty million people in a global conflict, one death still has much to tell us. In doing so she paints a gripping portrait of post-war Britain that raises questions about murder, punishment and destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer characters include England’s first celebrity policeman, Fabian of the Yard; the celebrated forensic scientist, Keith Simpson; and history’s most famous and dedicated hangman, Albert Pierrepoint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diana Souhami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43225991446688,"sku":"9780857382832","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/9780857382832.jpg?v=1765704818","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780857382832","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}