The Crippen Case

On the last evening of January 1910, four people played cards in a rented house in north London. One of them, the music hall singer Cora Crippen, was never seen again. The American doctor Hawley Crippen, his typist Ethel Le Neve travelling as his son, the Scotland Yard inspector who crossed the Atlantic on a faster ship to meet them, and the ship's wireless that let the newspapers follow the chase day by day. Cover photo: Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve in the dock, London, 1910. Library of Congress (Bain Collection), public domain. Narrated by an AI voice.