The Crimes of Ethel the Neve

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Inspector Dew: "After digging down to a depth of about four spadefolds I came across what appeared to be human remains" Much of the body was missing and the remains they found were badly decomposed. One of the assistant commissioners, one of the senior officers at Scotland Yard comes up with some cigars for the officers to smoke to disguise the terrible smell that they're all suffering. Someone sends one of the constables out to a local shop to buy some bleach. So he comes back with this kind of bleach and they slosh it around, any modern, please will throw up their arms in horror at this conduct. But things were different then.

In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from their treasurer – a singer who went by the name Belle Elmore. It said that she suddenly had to travel to the United States, and that she was resigning from her position.

Several weeks later, at the Music Hall Ladies Guild fundraising ball, Belle's husband arrived with a date. And she was wearing Belle's brooch.

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