by Richard Cooper.
Starring Jonathan Hyde with Victoria Fairbrother
Michael Feast, Terry Taplin.
The first of eight cases featuring the legendary lawyer Edward Marshall Hall.
London, 1894: a body in a trunk, bludgeoned to death. A desperate crime - long before the trial, public opinion has condemned the accused to the gallows. Who then will speak for Marie Hermann? The brief is refused by many leading barristers before it is finally offered to a man with little experience in the defence of the charge of murder.
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