num_pages: 308
description: A scandalous crime a sensational trial a surprise verdictthe true story of Carrie Davies the maid who shot a Massey.In February 1915 a member of one of Canadas wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies an 18-year-old domestic servant quickly confessed. But who was the victim here? Charles Bert Massey a scion of a famous family or the frightened perhaps mentally unstable Carrie a penniless British immigrant? When the brilliant lawyer Hartley Dewart QC took on her case his grudge against the powerful Masseys would fuel a dramatic trial that pitted the old order against the new wealth and privilege against virtue and honest hard work. Set against a backdrop of the Great War in Europe and the changing faceof a nation this sensational crime is brought to vivid life for the first time.As in her previous bestselling book Gold Diggersnow in production as a Discovery Television miniseriesmulti-award-winning historian and biographer Charlotte Gray has created a captivating narrative rich in detail and brimming with larger-than-life personalities as she shines a light on a central moment in our past.
language: English
title: The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
publisher: HarperCollins