Move to Murder by Antony M BrownMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Move to Murder is the third book in the Cold Case Jury Collection .
This time the author invites the reader to be cold case jury member looking into the murder of Julia Wallace in Liverpool in 1931 which has to be one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time.
In brief, a telephone call was received at the Liverpool Central Chess Club asking for a message to be passed on to Mr William Wallace husband of the victim Julie Wallace . The caller, called himself R M Qualtrough, and he was eager to take out an endowment policy on his daughter, and wanted Wallace to visit him at his home, 25 Menlove Gardens East, the following evening to discuss it. After receiving the message and discussing it with his wife he travelled across the city using several trams. Only to discoverer that the address did not exist , disappointed I'm missing out on a commission he returned home to find his wife beaten to death and a small amount of money stolen.
William was treated as the main suspect by the police was soon arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife, and given the death. However an appeal saw the conviction overturned, and nobody else was ever found guilty of the crime.
Move to Murder examines five possible theories as to what could have happened that fatal night including ,Could Wallace have been the perpetrator after all, did he arrange the murder or was he completely innocent? I liked how each of these theory's where backed up by evidence.The book also has an excellent selection of photographs, some of which show the actual crime scene itself. I found myself completely absorbed in this book and would go as far as to say it was even better then the first two in the series.
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