Murder at Wrotham Hill
By: Diana Souhami
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780857382832; 9780857382849
Subjects: Death and burial; Murder; Investigation; History
Description: Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. Dagmar, a gentle, eccentric spinster, was the embodiment of Austerity Britain's prudence and thrift. Her murderer Harold Hagger's litany of petty crimes, abandoned wives, sloughed-off identities and desertion was its opposite. The texture of their lives and the impression their experiences made on their characters fated their meeting on that bleak autumn morning - and determined the manner in which both would meet their death.