by P. D. James
Wheatley, H. B., London Past and Present, 3 vols. (1891)
Accounts of the murders of the Marrs and Williamsons
Burke, Thomas, The Ecstacies of De Quincey (1928)
De Quincey, Thomas, On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts, and Postscript, De Quincey’s Collected Writings, vol. 13 (1890). The essay originally appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine for February 1827; the Postscript was first published in 1854.
Fairburn’s Authentic and Particular Account of the horrid Murders in Ratcliffe Highway and New Gravel Lane (?1811)
Griffiths, A., Mysteries of Crime and Police (1898)
Jackson, W., The New and Complete Newgate Calendar, vol. 8 (1818) pp. 393–437
Knapp and Baldwin, The Newgate Calendar (1828), pp. 52–9
Lindsay, Philip, The Mainspring of Murder (1958), Chap. 1
Logan, G. B. H., Masters of Crime (1928), Chap. IX.
Pelham, Camden (ed.), The Chronicles of Crime and the New Newgate Calendar (1886), pp. 513–21
Radzinowicz, Leon, A History of English Criminal Law, vols. 2 and 3 (1950–56)
Roughead, William, Neck or Nothing (1939), pp. 245–77
Shearing, Joseph, Orange Blossoms (1938), Chap. entitled, ‘Blood and Thunder: An old Tale retold’. (A fictional account)
Wilson, Colin, A Casebook of Murder (1969), Chap. 4
Miscellaneous
Chatterton, E. H., The Old East Indiamen (1914)
Colquhoun, Patrick, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis (5th ed., 1797)
De Quincey, Collected Writings, vol. 10, Literary Theory and Criticism (1890): On the Knocking on the Gate in Macbeth
Harriott, John, Struggles through Life (3rd ed., 3 vols., 1818)
Lloyd, Christopher, The British Seaman (1968)
Malcolm, J. P., Manners and Customs of London (1810)
Oddie, S. I., Inquest (1941)
Parliamentary Debates, Hansard, vol. 21, cols. 196–222 and 482–9
Report on the Nightly Watch of the Metropolis, Parl. Papers, Reports (1812)
Simpson, Keith, Forensic Medicine (1950)
People in the case
29 Ratcliffe Highway, St George’s, Middlesex
Timothy Marr Linen draper
Celia Marr His wife
Timothy Marr junr. Their infant son
Margaret Jewell Servant to the Marrs
James Gowen Shop boy
Wilkie Former servant to the Marrs
The King’s Arms, New Gravel Lane, St Paul’s, Shadwell
John Williamson Publican
Elizabeth Williamson His wife
Catherine (Kitty) Stillwell Their grand-daughter
Bridget Anna Harrington Servant to the Williamsons
John Turner Journeyman, lodger at the King’s Arms
The Pear Tree, Pear Tree Alley, Wapping
Robert Vermilloe Publican
(or Vermilye)
Sarah Vermilloe His wife
Mary Rice Washerwoman, sister in law to Mrs Vermilloe
William Rice Her son
John (or Michael) Seaman, lodger at the
Cuthperson (or Colberg) Pear Tree
John Harrison Sailmaker, lodger at the Pear Tree
John Peterson Sailor from Hamburg, formerly lodging at the Pear Tree
John Frederick Richter Seaman, lodger at the Pear Tree
John Williams Seaman, lodger at the Pear Tree
The Public Office, Shadwell
The Public Office, Bow Street
Aaron Graham Magistrate
The River Thames Police Office, Wapping
John Harriott Magistrate
Charles Horton Police officer
The Home Office
Richard Ryder Home Secretary
John Beckett Senior Under-Secretary
Coldbath Fields Prison
Mr Atkins Prison keeper
William Hassall Clerk to the prison
Thomas Webb Surgeon to the prison
Joseph Beckett Turnkey
Henry Harris Prisoner
Francis Knott Prisoner
Others
Walter Salter Surgeon
Captain Hutchinson Captain of the East Indiaman Roxburgh Castle
Mr Lee Landlord of the Black Horse Public House, opposite the King’s Arms
Robert Lawrence Licensee, the Ship and Royal Oak Public House
Miss Lawrence His daughter
Mrs Peachy Landlady, the New Crane Public House
Susan Peachy Her daughter
Susannah Orr Widow
John Murray Pawnbroker, neighbour to Mr Marr
Mr Anderson Parish Constable, a friend of Mr Williamson
George Fox Resident of New Gravel Lane
Mr Pugh Master Carpenter
Cornelius Hart Carpenter, Pugh’s man
Trotter Carpenter
Jeremiah Fitzpatrick Joiner
John Cobbett Coal heaver
William Ablass ‘Long Billy’ Seaman, native of Danzig
Thomas Knight Hackler, employed by Sims & Co, ropemakers
About P. D. James and T. A. Critchley
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
T. A. Critchley was born in Hertfordshire in 1919 and was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s School in Barnet. He was married with three children and six grandchildren. He worked for many years in the Home Office, including the Police Department, where he was a colleague of P. D. James. His other works include A History of Police in England and Wales. He died in 1991.
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