Description
In January 1914 the body of five year old Willie Starchfield was found strangled on a North London Railway train near Dalston.
Although both his parents were suspected, no one was ever convicted of this heinous crime and there was no obvious motive.
This book examines the family background to the case, the murder investigation, the abortive trial, the aftermath for his parents and the later theories of both contemporaries and crime historians.
Exhaustively researched from the files of the National Archives, contemporary newspapers and memoirs, this book provides the most complete account of this baffling case which was also a terrible human tragedy.
