The Tenterden Murder, An Edwardian Murder Most Brutal

The year 1905, a small hamlet in deepest rural Kent, a man brutally attacked at midnight in a meadow with his throat gruesomely cut from ear to ear and his skull bludgeoned, the body undiscovered for thirty hours, the community in shock and a band of newly arrived Algerian hawkers roaming the area intensify the drama. Who killed him in such a savage way and why?

Kent's celebrated detective Edwin Fowle determinedly leads the painstaking investigation and manhunt under national newspaper scrut...