#OnThisDay 115 years ago began the trial of the murderer of Cora Crippen, a Polish-American music hall artiste also known by her stage name Belle Elmore. The investigation leading to it is fully covered in our #CM150 exhibition in Sidcup. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #truecrime #storyofamurder
October 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#OnThisDay 115 years ago began the trial of the murderer of Cora Crippen, a Polish-American music hall artiste also known by her stage name Belle Elmore. The investigation leading to it is fully covered in our #CM150 exhibition in Sidcup. #OTD #OnThisDayInHistory #truecrime #storyofamurder
Well, I woke up this morning and was completely stunned to learn that #StoryofaMurder had won the True Crime Book of the Year Award at Crime Con in the US!
September 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Well, I woke up this morning and was completely stunned to learn that #StoryofaMurder had won the True Crime Book of the Year Award at Crime Con in the US!
A travesty that @hallierubenhold.bsky.social was not on this list for the excellent #StoryOfAMurder
Possibly the biggest prize in non-fiction. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize
The 12 contenders for this year’s £50,000 nonfiction prize also include Lyse Doucet, Justin Marozzi, Frances Wilson, Adam LeBor and the Guardian’s Jason Burke
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A travesty that @hallierubenhold.bsky.social was not on this list for the excellent #StoryOfAMurder
Missing the islands but enthralled by the #trees in Sussex. I’m nearly at the end of #StoryOfAMurder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social about the lives of everyone involved in the murder of Cora #Crippen. Jaw dropping! Highly recommend. 📚
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Missing the islands but enthralled by the #trees in Sussex. I’m nearly at the end of #StoryOfAMurder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social about the lives of everyone involved in the murder of Cora #Crippen. Jaw dropping! Highly recommend. 📚
I’ve realised that so many people who have listened to #StoryofaMurder as an audiobook haven’t had a chance to see any of the photos in the book. These are NEW and not in the book, but if you get a chance and want to put faces to names, do pick up a copy of the hardback, even for a peek.
July 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I’ve realised that so many people who have listened to #StoryofaMurder as an audiobook haven’t had a chance to see any of the photos in the book. These are NEW and not in the book, but if you get a chance and want to put faces to names, do pick up a copy of the hardback, even for a peek.
People throw out treasure. I’m not going to say which library was throwing out this scrapbook of newspaper clippings from 1910-1911 DOCUMENTING THE ENTIRE CRIPPEN CASE, but it’s in the right hands now (mine). Literal archival material, including things I’d never seen before. #StoryofaMurder
July 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
People throw out treasure. I’m not going to say which library was throwing out this scrapbook of newspaper clippings from 1910-1911 DOCUMENTING THE ENTIRE CRIPPEN CASE, but it’s in the right hands now (mine). Literal archival material, including things I’d never seen before. #StoryofaMurder
Big thanks to all who came to Chorleywood Library to hear @hallierubenhold.bsky.social and I discuss #StoryOfAMurder and what a story! Hallie is truly special, radically refocusing historical cases you thought you knew. Thanks Sheryl and @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social signed books in store now
June 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Big thanks to all who came to Chorleywood Library to hear @hallierubenhold.bsky.social and I discuss #StoryOfAMurder and what a story! Hallie is truly special, radically refocusing historical cases you thought you knew. Thanks Sheryl and @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social signed books in store now
Oooh! 😱 Guess who I’m interviewing at Chorleywood Library at 7pm tonight, courtesy of @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social 😎 The amazing @hallierubenhold.bsky.social author of #StoryOfAMurder 🕵️♀️🔎 Hope to see you later!
June 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Oooh! 😱 Guess who I’m interviewing at Chorleywood Library at 7pm tonight, courtesy of @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social 😎 The amazing @hallierubenhold.bsky.social author of #StoryOfAMurder 🕵️♀️🔎 Hope to see you later!
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social in conversation with #AbbottKahler at the @nypl.bsky.social this evening talking about her new book #StoryofaMurder. #historical
May 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social in conversation with #AbbottKahler at the @nypl.bsky.social this evening talking about her new book #StoryofaMurder. #historical
Great review of #StoryofaMurder in this weekend’s Financial Times
April 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Great review of #StoryofaMurder in this weekend’s Financial Times
I had such a wonderful time today doing a briefing about #StoryofaMurder for the members of @theforeignpressassociation. They asked the toughest (and the best) questions!
Later, I got to have a proper sit down with a real LA heroine journalist, #pattmorrison - what an absolute pleasure!
Later, I got to have a proper sit down with a real LA heroine journalist, #pattmorrison - what an absolute pleasure!
April 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I had such a wonderful time today doing a briefing about #StoryofaMurder for the members of @theforeignpressassociation. They asked the toughest (and the best) questions!
Later, I got to have a proper sit down with a real LA heroine journalist, #pattmorrison - what an absolute pleasure!
Later, I got to have a proper sit down with a real LA heroine journalist, #pattmorrison - what an absolute pleasure!
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social Just finished #StoryOfAMurder absolutely fascinating story, as with your previous book, you’ve done an excellent job of putting the victim before the perpetrator, as it should be. Great work, loved it.
April 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social Just finished #StoryOfAMurder absolutely fascinating story, as with your previous book, you’ve done an excellent job of putting the victim before the perpetrator, as it should be. Great work, loved it.
Join us on Wednesday 14 May for an exciting event with bestselling author @hallierubenhold.bsky.social to celebrate her new book #StoryofaMurder.
The event will include a captivating conversation, audience Q&A, drinks reception and book signing.
Book today: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/in-c...
The event will include a captivating conversation, audience Q&A, drinks reception and book signing.
Book today: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/in-c...
Hat tip to Kathryn Hughes for this review of #StoryofaMurder in the Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen
The author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victim
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Join us on Wednesday 14 May for an exciting event with bestselling author @hallierubenhold.bsky.social to celebrate her new book #StoryofaMurder.
The event will include a captivating conversation, audience Q&A, drinks reception and book signing.
Book today: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/in-c...
The event will include a captivating conversation, audience Q&A, drinks reception and book signing.
Book today: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/in-c...
#StoryofaMurder - straight onto the Sunday Times Bestseller List!
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#StoryofaMurder - straight onto the Sunday Times Bestseller List!
If you've read today's Guardian review (bit.ly/mkhallie) and want to know more, join us on 12 April as @hallierubenhold.bsky.social visits #miltonkeynes to talk about #StoryofaMurder and the tale of Cora Crippen.
Tickets: mklitfest.org/hallie-ruben...
#drcrippen #coracrippen #truecrime
Tickets: mklitfest.org/hallie-ruben...
#drcrippen #coracrippen #truecrime
April 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you've read today's Guardian review (bit.ly/mkhallie) and want to know more, join us on 12 April as @hallierubenhold.bsky.social visits #miltonkeynes to talk about #StoryofaMurder and the tale of Cora Crippen.
Tickets: mklitfest.org/hallie-ruben...
#drcrippen #coracrippen #truecrime
Tickets: mklitfest.org/hallie-ruben...
#drcrippen #coracrippen #truecrime
Hat tip to Kathryn Hughes for this review of #StoryofaMurder in the Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen
The author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victim
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Hat tip to Kathryn Hughes for this review of #StoryofaMurder in the Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Fantastic review of #StoryofaMurder by Lucy Hughes-Hallett in the New Statesman! A book “not about death, but about life”.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The murder that shocked the Edwardians
The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
www.newstatesman.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Fantastic review of #StoryofaMurder by Lucy Hughes-Hallett in the New Statesman! A book “not about death, but about life”.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Very excited to have downloaded my first EVER audiobook - Story of a Murder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social 🎧📖 Can’t wait to start listening #books #audiobook #storyofamurder
March 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Very excited to have downloaded my first EVER audiobook - Story of a Murder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social 🎧📖 Can’t wait to start listening #books #audiobook #storyofamurder
If you happen to be in London today - in Clerkenwell, off Store Street, off Shaftesbury Ave/ New Oxford Street and outside the former Bow Street Magistrate’s Court you may encounter ‘the Music Hall Ladies Guild’ encouraging you to remember their absent friend, Belle Elmore. #StoryofaMurder
March 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If you happen to be in London today - in Clerkenwell, off Store Street, off Shaftesbury Ave/ New Oxford Street and outside the former Bow Street Magistrate’s Court you may encounter ‘the Music Hall Ladies Guild’ encouraging you to remember their absent friend, Belle Elmore. #StoryofaMurder
Always meet your heroes and heroines. What a superb night on Monday celebrating the launch of @hallierubenhold.bsky.social new book #storyofamurder. A room full of the nations top historians who have shaped my understanding, lessons and curriculum.
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Always meet your heroes and heroines. What a superb night on Monday celebrating the launch of @hallierubenhold.bsky.social new book #storyofamurder. A room full of the nations top historians who have shaped my understanding, lessons and curriculum.
Everyone, Robert knows his stuff. This is the best social media review of #Storyofamurder by far.
So excited to have gotten into @hallierubenhold.bsky.social's STORY OF A MURDER, which came out yesterday in the US. Here are my initial impressions, aka how it exceeded the expectations held in the nerdiest corners of my readerly heart.
March 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Everyone, Robert knows his stuff. This is the best social media review of #Storyofamurder by far.