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The chilling saga is set skilfully against the background of Edwardian England, where a woman counted for little if anything if she was still a spinster by the age of thirty, and the first months of war. Occasionally the author's eye for detail strays a little too far into other fields. For example, her description of the terror that the Zeppelin brought to English skies in 1915, fascinating as it is, is not strictly relevant and could have been shortened. Yet that only detracts to a minor degree from the compulsively readable saga of Smith, his unfortunate seven wives, and the pathologist who helped the forces of law and order to bring him to justice. Indeed, as a result of the trial Spilsbury became something of a 'star performer', and the last chapter follows his remaining thirty-year career before ill-health and failing powers sadly led to him taking his own life.

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