The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury - Hardcover

‘I found this a truly breathtaking, eye-opening book.’ (The Secret Life of Bletchley Park)
  (A.N Wilson)

‘Painstakingly researched and fascinating as his bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, and an essential companion to it’ (The Secret Listeners)
  (Daily Mail)

‘As he has proved before, Sinclair McKay has no peers when it comes to the history of Bletchley Park – and its aftermath. Lucid, well-researched and rich in detail, The Spies of Winter is a valuable addition to the genre.’  (The Spies of Winter)
  (Daily Mail)

'A fascinating book, by turns riveting and unsettling, and wonderfully rich in period detail.' (Mile End Murder)

  (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)

'Tale of crime and police incompetence is told in lurid detail.' (Mile End Murder) 

  (James Marriot The Times)

Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house, well-kept and hospitable, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this very ordinary veneer, there was a murderous darkness at its heart.
 
On 8th May 1879, the corpse of former resident, Matilda Hacker, was uncovered by chance in the coal cellar. The investigation that followed this macabre discovery stripped bare the shadow-side of Victorian domesticity, throwing the lives of everyone within into an extraordinary and destructive maelstrom. For someone in Number 4 Euston Square must have had full knowledge of what had happened to Matilda Hacker. Someone in that house had killed her. How could the murderer prove so amazingly elusive?
 
Bestselling author, Sinclair McKay delves into this intriguing story and sheds light on a mystery that eluded the detectives of Scotland Yard.