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  Wheatley, H. B., London Past and Present, 3 vols. (1891)

  Accounts of the murders of the Marrs and Williamsons

  Burke, Thomas, The Ecstacies of De Quincey (1928)

  De Quincey, Thomas, On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts, and Postscript, De Quincey’s Collected Writings, vol. 13 (1890). The essay originally appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine for February 1827; the Postscript was first published in 1854.

  Fairburn’s Authentic and Particular Account of the horrid Murders in Ratcliffe Highway and New Gravel Lane (?1811)

  Griffiths, A., Mysteries of Crime and Police (1898)

  Jackson, W., The New and Complete Newgate Calendar, vol. 8 (1818) pp. 393–437

  Knapp and Baldwin, The Newgate Calendar (1828), pp. 52–9

  Lindsay, Philip, The Mainspring of Murder (1958), Chap. 1

  Logan, G. B. H., Masters of Crime (1928), Chap. IX.

  Pelham, Camden (ed.), The Chronicles of Crime and the New Newgate Calendar (1886), pp. 513–21

  Radzinowicz, Leon, A History of English Criminal Law, vols. 2 and 3 (1950–56)

  Roughead, William, Neck or Nothing (1939), pp. 245–77

  Shearing, Joseph, Orange Blossoms (1938), Chap. entitled, ‘Blood and Thunder: An old Tale retold’. (A fictional account)

  Wilson, Colin, A Casebook of Murder (1969), Chap. 4

  Miscellaneous

  Chatterton, E. H., The Old East Indiamen (1914)

  Colquhoun, Patrick, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis (5th ed., 1797)

  De Quincey, Collected Writings, vol. 10, Literary Theory and Criticism (1890): On the Knocking on the Gate in Macbeth

  Harriott, John, Struggles through Life (3rd ed., 3 vols., 1818)

  Lloyd, Christopher, The British Seaman (1968)

  Malcolm, J. P., Manners and Customs of London (1810)

  Oddie, S. I., Inquest (1941)

  Parliamentary Debates, Hansard, vol. 21, cols. 196–222 and 482–9

  Report on the Nightly Watch of the Metropolis, Parl. Papers, Reports (1812)

  Simpson, Keith, Forensic Medicine (1950)

  People in the case

  29 Ratcliffe Highway, St George’s, Middlesex

  Timothy Marr Linen draper

  Celia Marr His wife

  Timothy Marr junr. Their infant son

  Margaret Jewell Servant to the Marrs

  James Gowen Shop boy

  Wilkie Former servant to the Marrs

  The King’s Arms, New Gravel Lane, St Paul’s, Shadwell

  John Williamson Publican

  Elizabeth Williamson His wife

  Catherine (Kitty) Stillwell Their grand-daughter

  Bridget Anna Harrington Servant to the Williamsons

  John Turner Journeyman, lodger at the King’s Arms

  The Pear Tree, Pear Tree Alley, Wapping

  Robert Vermilloe Publican

  (or Vermilye)

  Sarah Vermilloe His wife

  Mary Rice Washerwoman, sister in law to Mrs Vermilloe

  William Rice Her son

  John (or Michael) Seaman, lodger at the

  Cuthperson (or Colberg) Pear Tree

  John Harrison Sailmaker, lodger at the Pear Tree

  John Peterson Sailor from Hamburg, formerly lodging at the Pear Tree

  John Frederick Richter Seaman, lodger at the Pear Tree

  John Williams Seaman, lodger at the Pear Tree

  The Public Office, Shadwell

  The Public Office, Bow Street

  Aaron Graham Magistrate

  The River Thames Police Office, Wapping

  John Harriott Magistrate

  Charles Horton Police officer

  The Home Office

  Richard Ryder Home Secretary

  John Beckett Senior Under-Secretary

  Coldbath Fields Prison

  Mr Atkins Prison keeper

  William Hassall Clerk to the prison

  Thomas Webb Surgeon to the prison

  Joseph Beckett Turnkey

  Henry Harris Prisoner

  Francis Knott Prisoner

  Others

  Walter Salter Surgeon

  Captain Hutchinson Captain of the East Indiaman Roxburgh Castle

  Mr Lee Landlord of the Black Horse Public House, opposite the King’s Arms

  Robert Lawrence Licensee, the Ship and Royal Oak Public House

  Miss Lawrence His daughter

  Mrs Peachy Landlady, the New Crane Public House

  Susan Peachy Her daughter

  Susannah Orr Widow

  John Murray Pawnbroker, neighbour to Mr Marr

  Mr Anderson Parish Constable, a friend of Mr Williamson

  George Fox Resident of New Gravel Lane

  Mr Pugh Master Carpenter

  Cornelius Hart Carpenter, Pugh’s man

  Trotter Carpenter

  Jeremiah Fitzpatrick Joiner

  John Cobbett Coal heaver

  William Ablass ‘Long Billy’ Seaman, native of Danzig

  Thomas Knight Hackler, employed by Sims & Co, ropemakers

  About P. D. James and T. A. Critchley

  P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

  T. A. Critchley was born in Hertfordshire in 1919 and was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s School in Barnet. He was married with three children and six grandchildren. He worked for many years in the Home Office, including the Police Department, where he was a colleague of P. D. James. His other works include A History of Police in England and Wales. He died in 1991.

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