I was delighted with this article in my local press, Southwark News, about my latest book, The Bermondsey Murder:
The Rise of Scotland Yard: How the Manning case shaped detective history, new book reveals
The search for the Mannings spread beyond England and was closely followed by the Victorian public including prominent writers like Charles Dickens
When Patrick O’Connor went missing in August 1849, his friends were suspicious. The London dock worker was last seen in the company of Swiss-born Maria Manning and her husband in Bermondsey.
By the time police officers discovered his remains under the kitchen floor, the couple had fled. This shocking crime sparked a nationwide manhunt and later inspired Charles Dicken’s seminal novel Bleak House. A new book by Angela Buckley is the first full-length factual account of the iconic case…. You can read the whole article here.