THE EUSTON SQUARE MYSTERY

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SYNOPSIS

The Lodging houses of Victorian London held no shortage of scandal and intrigue for the more imaginative Londoners in the 19th Century. The Maids and their masters, the comings and goings of a transient household and the very concept of strangers living together under one roof in an age when such situations were not seen as natural. Still, even the most imaginative of passers by could not have expected the stories that would soon come flooding out from one particular household, when in 1879, the body of an elderly woman showed up in the coal cellar of 4 Euston Square, a previously well-to-do neighbourhood in Bloomsbury, London. Not merely unidentified, it was entirely unknown how on earth it had got there in the first place.

The Lady in the Cellar – Sinclair McKay – Really great book detailing the Euston Square Mystery

Court transcript  – Transcripts from the Dobbs trial

Court transcript – Transcript from the Bastendorff trial

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