What if you are found neither innocent nor guilty?

Books mentioned in this episode

— The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins

— The House in Queen Anne Square by William Darling Lyell

— Madeleine Smith: A Tragi-Comedy in Two Acts by Winifred Duke

— Trial of Madeleine Smith (Notable British Trials), appraisal by F. Tennyson Jesse

— Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair

— The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith by Douglas MacGowan

— Letty Lynton by Marie Belloc Lowndes

— Alas, for Her That Met Me! by Mary Ann Ashe (Christianna Brand)

Previous Shedunnit episodes mentioned

— Florence Maybrick I and Florence Maybrick II, originally published 15 May and 12 June 2019

— Edith Thompson, originally published 9 January 2019

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