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18. Bomb damage in Kenton Road, the Marshalls’ former home, 28 June 1944.

19. Doreen Margaret Marshall.

20. Detective Constable George Suter.

21. Divisional Detective Inspector Reginald Spooner (right) with an unnamed assistant.

22. Police photographers take pictures of the scene of the crime, Branksome Dene Chine, July 1946.

23. Violet Van Der Elst is arrested among the crowds gathered outside Pentonville Prison on the morning of Heath’s execution, 16 October 1946.

24. A woman reads the notice of Heath’s execution outside Pentonville, 16 October 1946.

25. Heath’s waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s in London, wearing a copy of the tweed jacket he wore to the pre-trial hearings at West London Magistrates’ court.

26. Heath’s effigy is groomed in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud’s, at some point in the 1960s. Here he wears a copy of the pinstripe suit he wore at his trial.

27. A Bournemouth newspaper headline reporting the murder of Doreen Marshall, 9 July 1946.

28. The cover of Sydney Brock’s book,
The Life and Death of Neville Heath
, published in 1947. It promised a ‘Sensational-Sadistic-Romantic-True Story’.

29. Heath returning from West London Magistrates’ Court, August 1946.

Table of Contents

4 Thursday 20 June 1946

5 Detective Inspector Spooner

6 The Pembridge Court Hotel

PART TWO: Neville George Clevely Heath

7 Rake’s Progress

8 Borstal Boy

9 Lt. James Robert Cadogan Armstrong

10 Out of South Africa

11 Thursday 20 June 1946

12 Rogue Male

PART THREE: Group Captain Rupert Robert Brook

13 Bournemouth

14 Miss Waring

15 Miss Marshall

16 The Tollard Royal Hotel

17 Detective Constable Suter

18 Branksome Dene Chine

PART FOUR: The Twisting of Another Rope

19 3923

20 Mrs Armstrong

21 The Old Bailey

22 Wednesday 16 October 1946

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