Buy this book on-line LINKLATER,ERIC: : The Corpse on Clapham Common:A Tale of Sixty Years AgoLONDON.MACMILLAN,1971. ISBN 0333002776.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.
FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean illustrated (based on a b/w photograph of Steinie Morrison in the dock) dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges
and corners - no nicks or tears present.
Top edge lightly dust-soiled and slightly aged;fore-edge brighter and cleaner;
contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished, publisher's original,plain brown/tan cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,sharp corners and immaculate,plain apple-green eps.8vo,1-207pp includes preamble,15 chapters with 10 b/w line illustrated chapter head-pieces,plus 1pp list of author's other works at rear,plus [unpaginated] blank, half-title,b/w line illus vignetted title-page and list of illustrations (drawn by Jane Dickins from contemporary photographs and other sources).
The trial of Steinie Morrison was,in its day,a cause celebre,and has been the subject of controversy ever since.Court room proceedings were enlivened by the notable eccentricity of counsel - there was drama within drama - and in his summing-up Mr Justice Darling showed his belief that there was insufficient evidence
for conviction.But the jury found
Morrison guilty - guilty of the gruesome murder of Leon Beron on Clapham Common,in the earliest hours of New Year's Day,1911 - and but for the clemency of Winston Churchill,then Home Secretary,he would have
been hanged.Morrison,however,reduced his sentence of life imprisonment by starving himself to death some ten years later.
The case itself was of absorbing interest,
the trial alternated between dramatic intensity and wild farce,and throughout England there was a dark suspicion that the
murder of Leon Beron was in some way connected with two violent crimes that had deeply alarmed the public mind:the Houndsditch Murders before Christmas,the Siege of Sidney Street in January.Were foreign anarchists on the rampage? So it was feared,and anti-foreign,anti-semtic feeling swept London.
Against that background Eric Linklater retells the whole story,makes clear his own belief that Morrison was not the murderer.He fills a crowded canvas with vivid detail and a cast of characters ranging from an invisible Peter the Painter
to the celebrated Detective Inspector Wensley,from the East End harlots to Mr Justice Darling in all his urbanity.
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