Dimensions
160 x 240 x 20mm
On the night of 29 June 1860 four-year-old Francis Kent was taken from his room, his throat was slit and his body was dumped in an outside lavatory. Twelve people were in the house, two of them sleeping in the same room as Francis, and the building itself was isolated and impenetrable. There were three possible suspects, but police incompetence and disagreements between Wiltshire Constabulary and Scotland Yard turned the investigation into a farce. Eventually, Constance Kent, Francis's step-sister, was convicted and sentenced to death, but because of uncertainty over her confession her sentence was commuted to twenty years penal servitude. Paul Chambers re-investigates this famous case, and demonstrates conclusively who the murderer really was.
