Kate Colquhoun

In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The case cracked the varnish of Victorian respectability, shocking and exciting the public in equal measure.

On the 9th of July 1864, Thomas Briggs walked through Fenchurch Station and entered carriage 69 on the 9.45 Hackney-bound train. Little did he know that he was about to travel into history. Kate Colquhoun unravels the mysteries of one of the most gripping murder investigations of the age.