num_pages: 236
description: August, 1889. Twenty-seven-year-old Florence Maybrick is sentenced to death for poisoning her husband, Liverpool cotton broker James Maybrick, in one of the most infamous trials in British legal history. But what was the truth behind Maybrick¹s death? And how was it connected to a spate of terrible murders in London¹s East End? Florence¹s turbulent life ‹ her marriage to a man widely believed to be the most notorious serial killer of all time, her sensational trial and imprisonment ‹ is the stuff of high drama. Revealing startling new evidence that puts a dramatic twist on Maybrick¹s death, The Last Victim is a fascinating historical re-evaluation of one of the most extraordinary true crime puzzles of all time.
language: English
title: The Last Victim: The Extraordinary Life of Florence Maybrick, the Wife of Jack the Ripper
titlecomplete: The Last Victim: The Extraordinary Life of Florence Maybrick, the Wife of Jack the Ripper
genres: True Crime, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd