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Welcome to the mostnitorious podcast. My name is Eric Rivenus and glad to have you here.

I'm pleased to have as my guest today Paul Thomas Murphy, author of Shooting Victoria and the book we're discussing today, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrook Lane, a true story of Victorian law and disorder, the unsolved murder that shocked Victorian England.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thanks for having me.

So I have to ask you right off the bat. You've written a wonderful book on a murder in historic turn of the century London.

This is actually your second Victorian Arab book set in England, but you're an American. How did you become so interested in a place so far away?

It's sort of spent years in Victorian England in a way because my academic training is I'm a Victorianist. I taught it.

I was actually specialized in Victorian literature and then about 10 years ago took a shift into history and then started looking at some footnote figures in Victorian history and started looking at the assassins would be assassins of Queen Victoria.

They all failed and that got me into the first book. So from then on it's been Victorian on fiction.

So how did you come across this specific murder and what motivated you to write about it?

Yeah, this one was was really a happy accident because when I was finishing with shooting Victoria I was back in London sort of checking the archives one more time and doing a little premature celebration of being done with the book.

And one of my friends there happens to be in his fair time a guide at a cemetery in South London, broccoli and ladybell cemetery.

And when we were out prematurely celebrating I was already sort of looking for a new idea and asked him if he was going to write a book about anybody in that cemetery who would it be?

And immediately immediately said Jane Clucin and then said, oh let me die which was probably her last words and then told me a little bit about what he knew about the murder and it right from the start it seemed like a fascinating story but I told him I'd look into it see if it really there was a book in it and dug into it and I believe there was and so I wrote it.

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