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'Popular history you devour in one sitting' Sunday Times'Gripping' TLS'Unbelievably addictive' LUCY WORSLEY, presenter of A Very British Murder'I couldn't put it down' BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry'Finely layered' Financial Times'Breath-taking' Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 1 February, 1910, vivacious music-hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home, causing alarm among her circle of female friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild who demanded an immediate investigation.   They could not have known what they would provoke: the unearthing of a gruesome secret, followed by a fevered manhunt for the prime suspect: Belle’s husband, medical fraudster, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen.   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