Barry Wood

Barry Wood

Barry Wood is a London based freelance journalist who has written for the Mail on Sunday, Spectator and the Sunday Times Magazine.

The Resurrection of English Murder

George Orwell was the first to mourn the decline of English murder. In his famous 1946 essay he lamented that modern forensic medicine and the easing of divorce meant there would be no more husband-poisoners like Mrs. Florence Maybrick or lethal serial womanizers like Dr. Crippen. Surveying the ...


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