Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder

(A) thrilling book, which reads at times like a good Victorian novel... an utterly compelling did-he-do-it Sunday Times Deploying her skill as a historian, Colquhoun turns a single curious murder case into a fascinatingly quirky portrait of the underside of mid-Victorian London. I found it unputdownable Daily Telegraph Kate Colquhoun is a fine, robust writer who makes the most of its every twist and turn Mail on Sunday With a storyteller's instinct for colour and suspense Kate Colquhoun has brilliantly recreated the five-month period from Thomas Briggs' death to Muller's execution Daily Express Kate Colquhoun's irreproachable unpicking of the case is meticulous, patient, thorough and measured Independent