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The Trials of Madeleine Smith

What if you are found neither innocent nor guilty?

Books mentioned in this episode
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
The House in Queen Anne Square by William Darling Lyell
— Madeleine Smith: A Tragi-Comedy in Two Acts by Winifred Duke
Trial of Madeleine Smith (Notable British Trials), appraisal by F. Tennyson Jesse
Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair
— The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith by Douglas MacGowan
Letty Lynton by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Alas, for Her That Met Me! by Mary Ann Ashe (Christianna Brand)

Previous Shedunnit episodes mentioned
Florence Maybrick I and Florence Maybrick II, originally published 15 May and 12 June 2019
Edith Thompson, originally published 9 January 2019

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The Trials of Madeleine Smith Transcript

Caroline: Whether the reader actually gets to read about it on the page or not, detective fiction is usually aimed in one very specific direction: the moment when an accused gets to their feet in a courtroom and waits to hear whether they have been found guilty or not guilty of the crime at issue.… Continue Reading