Percy Lefroy Mapleton, a deceitful writer obsessed with an actress, resorted to fraud and violence.
Percy Lefroy Mapleton was a talented young writer. But he was also a liar, a thief and a fantasist. By 1881, he had become fixated on a beautiful stage actress. Convinced the two of them belonged together, he concocted an elaborate fraud to win her heart. But Lefroy could not outrun his lies forever and, when exposure seemed certain, he was driven to a darker and more violent crime.
In 1895, Detective Sergeant Robert Kidd was murdered, and convicting his killers required one gang member to confess.
In 1910, the city of Newcastle was transfixed by a murder trial. A clerk had been killed on a train and his wages bag stolen with hundreds of pounds inside.
Jimmy Alcott was a troubled young man. But would Alcott escape the noose a second time?
In 1957, Countess Teresa Lubienska was murdered at Gloucester Road station; her killer remains unidentified.
Nicholas Day
Narrator
