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Welcome to the Most Notorious Podcast. I'm Eric Ribbonis, happy to be back and to have

you here with me again. So please to have as my guest today, Catherine McMaster, her

latest book, Who Killed Little Johnny Gill, shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller charts

in the UK in its first week and release. A spellbinding historical mystery and I'm so

appreciative of you taking time out to talk with me today. Many thanks for the opportunity

Eric. It's great to be here. So you wrote somewhere that you got your

idea for this book from looking at Wikipedia, is that correct? Actually yes it is. I suppose

that's not the normal way authors go about finding ideas for their books. But I write

a different genre to most people. I write what people may call fact fiction or perhaps

realistic fiction. That is I take true stories and this case murder stories, research them,

add the meat to the bones and flesh it out to a novel that I hope will be of interest

to others. I wanted a story that was an unsolved murder. I think secrety because I wanted

to examine all the evidence and come up with the killer. I suppose, solves the crime.

I have a forensic background and this appeals to me. I think really I was looking for a

cold case that perhaps from pre-modern forensic science days that I could research and come

up with a better understanding of the crime and how I took place during the day. So I did

look in Wikipedia and I found the story of a little Johnny girl which I found absolutely

riveting. More surprisingly was the fact that after I had done further the research, nobody

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