A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story - Softcover

Lee, Carol Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780575262 ISBN 13: 9781780575261

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

In 1955, former night club manageress Ruth Ellis shot her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's "duties." Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life has never been fully told. Often willfully misinterpreted, the reality behind the headlines was buried by an avalanche of hearsay. But now, through new interviews and comprehensive research into previously unpublished sources, Carol Ann Lee examines the facts without agenda or sensation. A portrait of the era and an evocation of 1950s club life in all its seedy glamour, A Fine Day for a Hanging sets Ruth's gripping story firmly in its historical context in order to tell the truth about both her timeless crime and a punishment that was very much of its time.

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About the Authors

Carol Ann Lee is a biographer who has written extensively on the Holocaust. Her books include Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, and The Winter of the World.

CAROL ANN LEE is an acclaimed biographer and has written extensively on the Holocaust. Her most recent publications are Evil Relations, the story of David Smith, chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murder case, and the bestselling One of Your Own, which focused on the life and death of Myra Hindley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780575262
• ISBN 13: 9781780575261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272