弗洛伦丝·布拉沃年轻漂亮又富有,但她却时运不济,嫁的两任丈夫都不如意。她的第一任丈夫酗酒,还常常打她。她离他而去,找到了一位善良又温和的情人,但这位情人已是有妇之夫。后来她嫁给了查尔斯·布拉沃……
五个月后,查尔斯·布拉沃因锑中毒而死。是谁给他下的毒?是谁想要他的命?还是说这只是一场意外,根本就不是谋杀?
这是一个真实的故事,讲述了1876年发生的一桩凶案。这个案子非常出名。当时大小报纸对这个案子的报道铺天盖地,英格兰里人人都在谈论此案。但是,凶手却一直没有找到……
In England in the 1800s, during the time of Queen Victoria, women did not have an easy time. A married woman had to obey her husband in everything; she could not decide things for herself. Only a man could do that for her. And if she had a bad husband, who beat her, she could do nothing about it.
Florence Bravo was young, beautiful, and rich, but she was not lucky in her husbands. Her first husband drank too much, and beat her. She left him and took a lover, who was kind and gentle, but he was already married. Then she married Charles Bravo ...
Five months later, Charles Bravo was dead, killed by antimony poisoning. But who gave him the antimony? Who wanted him dead? Or was it an accident, and not murder at all?
This is a true story about a murder in 1876. It was a very famous case. The newspapers at the time were full of it, and everybody in England was talking about it. But no murderer was ever found ...