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Superbly evocative and gripping. The Spectator
Sean OConnor cant resist striking a theatrical note in this biography of murder. Sunday Times
Adultery, alcoholism, drugs and murder on the suburban streets of Bournemouth.
The Rattenbury case of 1935 was one of the great tabloid sensations of the interwar period. The glamorous femme fatale at the heart of the story dominated the front pages for months, somewhere between the rise of Hitler and the launch of the Queen Mary.
With painstaking research and access to brand new evidence, Sean OConnor vividly brings this epic story to life, from its beginnings in the South London slums of the 1880s and the open vistas of the British Columbian coast, to its bloody climax in a respectable English seaside resort.
The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury is a gripping murder story and a heartbreaking romance as well as the biography of a vital, modern woman trapped between the freedoms of two world wars and suffocated by the conformity of peacetime. A startlingly prescient parable for our times, it is the story of awoman who dared to challenge the status quo only to be crucified by public opinion, pilloried by the press and punished by the relentless machinery of the British legal system.
With a wealth of fascinating period detail, from its breathtaking opening to its shocking conclusion, The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury is a true story as enthralling, as provocative and as moving as any work of fiction.
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For my father, A. J. OConnor,
who tells a good story.
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:38
Bournemouth
Villa Madeira:
Alma Victoria Rattenbury | Musician/composer |
Francis Mawson Rattenbury | Architect |
Christopher Rattenbury | Almas son by Compton Pakenham |
John Rattenbury | Almas son by Rattenbury |
Irene Riggs | Companion/help |
George Percy Stoner | Chauffeur/handyman |
Dr William ODonnell | General practitioner |
Alfred Basil Rooke | Surgeon |
D.A. Wood | Surveyor |
Shirley Hatton Jenks | Barrister, squire of Pilsdon Manor |
Frank Hobbs | Chef |
Louise Price | Owner of Villa Madeira |
Antonia Landstein | Later owner of Villa Madeira |
104 Redhill Drive:
George Reuben Russell Stoner | Stoners father |
Olive Matilda Stoner | Stoners mother |
Samuel Richard Stevens | Stoners grandfather |
Elizabeth Augusta Stevens | Stoners grandmother |
Richard Edward Stevens | Stoners uncle |
Christine Stoner | Stoners wife |
Yvonne Stoner | Stoners daughter |
Bournemouth Police:
William Goldsworthy Carter | Detective inspector |
William James Mills | Detective inspector |
George Henry Gates | Detective constable |
Arthur Ernest Bagwell | Police constable |
Sydney George Bright | Police constable |
Leeds
Mary Anne Mawson | Rattenburys mother |
John Rattenbury | Rattenburys father |
Jack Rattenbury | Rattenburys brother |
Kate Miller Jones | Rattenburys sister |
London
Caledon Robert John Radclyffe Dolling | Royal Welch Fusiliers |
Frank Dolling | His brother |
Margaret Solly | His aunt |
Thomas Compton Pakenham | Machine Gun Corps/journalist |
Phyllis Mona Pakenham | His wife |
Simona Pakenham | His daughter |
Dorothy (Pinkie) Kingham | His sister |
Frank Titterton | Singer and broadcaster |
Beatrice Esmond | His accompanist |
Simon Van Lier | Keith Prowse Music |
Yvette Darnac | His mistress, singer with the BBC |
Keith Miller Jones | Rattenburys nephew, a solicitor |
Katherine Miller Jones | His sister |
Dr L. W. Bathurst | Harley Street specialist |
Maude McClellan | Matron, Nursing Home |
The Old Bailey:
Richard Somers Travers Humphreys | Judge |
Reginald Croom-Johnson, KC | Counsel for the crown |
Terence James OConnor, KC | Counsel for the defence |
The Hon. Ewen Montgu | His assisting counsel |
Joshua David Casswell | Counsel for the defence |
Robert Lewis Manning | Solicitor |
E. W. Marshall Harvey | Solicitor |
John Bickford | His clerk |
Dr Hugh Arrowsmith Grierson | Expert witness |
Dr Robert Dick Gillespie | Expert witness |
Dr Lionel Alexander Weatherly | Expert witness |
Dr John Hall Morton | Governor, Holloway Prison |
Reginald Moliere Tabuteau | Governor, Pentonville Prison |
British Columbia
Victoria:
Walter William Clarke | Almas father |
Frances Clarke | Almas mother |
Ernest Wolff | Almas grandfather |
Elizabeth Wolff | Almas grandmother |
Florence | Almas aunt |
Matilda | Almas aunt |
Mina | Almas aunt |
Ernest | Almas uncle |
Lionel | Almas uncle |
Emma | Almas aunt |
Marie | Almas aunt |
Amy | Almas aunt |
Dora | Almas aunt |
Ophelia | Almas aunt |
Clement Rowlands | Her husband |
Iechinihl:
Florence (Florrie) Rattenbury | Rattenburys first wife |
Francis Burgoyne (Frank) Rattenbury | Rattenburys son |
Mary Rattenbury | Rattenburys daughter |
Eleanor Howard | Florries adoptive mother |
Foy | Gardener |
Sam Maclure | Architect |
Margaret Maclure | His wife |
It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the News of the World ... In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder.
George Orwell,
Now at the very edge of memory and every passing year slipping further into history, the Rattenbury case of 1935 was one of the defining British murder trials of the interwar period and was regarded as one of the most dramatic
Writing in 1946, in the aftermath of the horrors of the Second World War, George Orwell set out his criteria for crimes he believed made up the canon of classic English murders, our Orwell was acutely aware of the cultural resonances of these cases, what they revealed about Britain and what they revealed about the British public who consumed these stories in daily and particularly Sunday newspapers. For readers with an appetite for blood and lust after Sunday lunch, the Rattenbury trial conformed to the classic woman in the dock cases of the Victorian and Edwardian period: Madeleine Smith, Constance Kent, Florence Maybrick and Adelaide Bartlett. Each of these trials was focused on a female protagonist accused of murder. By reporting the intimate details of these womens lives, the press was able to expose hidden and unsettling truths about the sexuality and behaviour of middle-class women in a period of apparent conformity. But after the Great War, the trope of the woman in the dock had been rebooted for the jazz age on both sides of the Atlantic with the trial of Edith Thompson in Britain in 1922 and Ruth Snyder in the United States in 1927. This latter trial, the inspiration for Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice , mirrored the British case in many aspects and the American press delighted in heightening the similarities between Snyder and Thompson, with both women cast variously as the infamous villainesses Messalina, Clytemnestra or Delilah; bad women who did bad things.
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