What the River Revealed | p. 9 |
Suffer Little Children | p. 12 |
A Casual Informer | p. 16 |
Kensington Road | p. 18 |
The Sting | p. 23 |
Beginnings | p. 28 |
From Angel to Angel Maker | p. 32 |
The Brixton Baby Farmer | p. 36 |
The Lunatic Pauper Palace | p. 45 |
Totterdown | p. 51 |
The Totterdown Baby Farm | p. 57 |
Polly and the Post-mortem | p. 64 |
Criminal Intent | p. 69 |
Silent Servitude | p. 73 |
Polly and the Ballad-Monger | p. 78 |
Mother Returns | p. 80 |
The Fishponds House of Confinement | p. 84 |
The Governess's Baby | p. 89 |
Mother and the Boarding House | p. 93 |
Polly and the Piano | p. 95 |
Mother and the Sharp-Pointed Knife | p. 98 |
Lunacy | p. 101 |
"Once more there were funerals" | p. 104 |
Arthur | p. 106 |
Liquor and Laudanum | p. 109 |
"Frenzied Objects" | p. 112 |
Melancholy Days | p. 116 |
"They broke my spirit" | p. 120 |
Money Troubles | |
The Family Divided | p. 125 |
Queenie Baker | p. 130 |
Granny Smith | p. 132 |
One Step Ahead of the Law | p. 136 |
A Family Business | p. 139 |
A Healthy Place in the Country | p. 142 |
Like Mother Like Daughter | p. 148 |
A Case at Willesden | p. 153 |
Granny's Misgivings | p. 157 |
The Barmaid's Daughter | p. 163 |
The Undertaker's Wife | p. 175 |
The Carpet Bag | p. 182 |
Good Friday | p. 186 |
Dyer on Remand | p. 190 |
The Arrest of Arthur Palmer | p. 193 |
Bodies and Bricks | p. 196 |
Mrs Dyer Confesses | p. 203 |
A Murderess Identified | p. 206 |
An Interview with Palmer | p. 208 |
Further Developments at Reading | p. 210 |
Trial by Newspaper | p. 215 |
A Body in the Reeds | p. 218 |
Polly and the Actress | p. 220 |
A Damning Testimony | p. 224 |
Holloway | p. 231 |
The Old Bailey | p. 234 |
Newgate | p. 238 |
The End | p. 240 |
The Auction | p. 242 |
Legal Repercussions | p. 245 |
A Brown Paper Parcel | p. 247 |
Acknowledgements | p. 249 |
Index | p. 251 |
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