A Proper Person to be Detained

A TRUE CRIME STORY, THAT REVEALS DEEPER TRUTHS ABOUT US, OUR PAST AND EVEN OUR PRESENT.

On Christmas night in 1881, in the slums of Leeds, young John Manley - the son of poor Irish immigrants - was fatally stabbed in a drunken quarrel. His terrified killer, John Ross, fled, knowing that capture could mean the gallows.

More than a century later, author Catherine Czerkawska sets out to uncover the truth about her great-great-uncle's tragic death and discovers that Ross is not the only 'proper...