Mr Briggs' Hat
A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
Crime
Kate Colquhoun
Little, Brown 2011
Hardback 339 pages Illustrated 
1847443699 | 9781847443694 |  Product code: 88014  
On 9 July 1864, Thomas Briggs boarded the 9.45pm from Fenchurch Street, bound for Chalk Farm; about ten minutes later, when the train stopped at Hackney Wick, all that remained of Mr Briggs was a lot of blood, his empty leather bag, his ivory-topped cane and somebody else's hat. It was Britain's first railway murder and the public were gripped by this 'terrible drama of real life'. Evoking its Victorian setting, Kate Colquhoun's narrative is an enthralling re-telling of the crime and the hunt for the killer.
 
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