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On a cold January evening in 1931, Liverpool's city streets were slick with rain and dimly lit by gaslight.

Inside the city cafe on North John Street, the members of the Liverpool Central Chess Club

were settling in for their Monday night games. Among them was 52-year-old insurance agent

William Herbert Wallace, a quiet man known for his punctuality,

his patience, and his love of chess. That night, a telephone call would set in motion

one of Britain's most baffling murder mysteries, a case that would puzzle investigators,

divide public opinion, and become one of the most debated in British

legal history. A phone message from a man who didn't exist, an address that wasn't real,

and by the following evening, a woman who would be dead. This is the story of the Wallace case,

a crime so strange that even nearly a century later,

it defies complete explanation.

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