Forty Years of Murder by Keith Simpson6/21/2023 She was reduced to a footnote and that made me furious. They only described her as ‘a spinster, typist, older woman’. And yet the newspaper reports all focused on Mahon: how handsome and sociable he was, how he was a father. She had moved from the North down to London – like me! That was brave and unusual for a woman in the 1920s. Her career, her status, her friendships, her survival were all on the line. “In this case, the question was: why would an intelligent, financially independent woman like that risk everything for a married man, a father? Because 100 years ago there were no safety nets for a woman like that. “Every novel begins with a question,” says Flint. The follow-up to 2016’s gripping Little Deaths was inspired by the story of how handsome, middle-class Patrick Mahon first seduced and then murdered 38-year-old typist Emily Kaye at a holiday cottage near Eastbourne. They found some of her organs in a biscuit tin.”įlint is describing the real, 1924 murder on which she has based her second novel, Other Women. “The actual murder was much gorier than the one I describe in my book,” says Emma Flint.
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