In this riveting episode, we delve into the timeless Agatha Christie classic, "Mrs. McGinty's Dead," alongside renowned author Margaret Moxom, diving deep into the chilling parallels with a real-life true crime sensation.
With a woman tragically discovered bludgeoned to death within the confines of her own abode, and the finger of suspicion pointing squarely at a familiar face, echoes of both Mrs. McGinty and Alice Wilshaw resonate.
With Margaret Moxom lending her expertise on this perplexing investigation, listeners are invited to unravel the tangled web of clues that confounded law enforcement and captivated global attention.
Alongside dissecting Christie's masterful narrative, we'll journey through the zeitgeist of the novel's publication year, juxtaposing its intricate plot against the backdrop of trending events on both Google and YouTube.
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In this riveting episode, we delve into the timeless Agatha Christie classic, "Mrs. McGinty's Dead," alongside renowned author Margaret Moxom, diving deep into the chilling parallels with a real-life true crime sensation.
With a woman tragically discovered bludgeoned to death within the confines of her own abode, and the finger of suspicion pointing squarely at a familiar face, echoes of both Mrs. McGinty and Alice Wilshaw resonate.
With Margaret Moxom lending her expertise on this perplexing investigation, listeners are invited to unravel the tangled web of clues that confounded law enforcement and captivated global attention.
Alongside dissecting Christie's masterful narrative, we'll journey through the zeitgeist of the novel's publication year, juxtaposing its intricate plot against the backdrop of trending events on both Google and YouTube.
@abitofachristie on X, IG, YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit and Facebook.
We love to hear from you, please contact us or leave us a review!
Please follow us for more information about our episodes and competitions we run.
Hazel Jones (00:00): Episode one, Mrs. McGinty's Dead.
Hello and welcome to ABitOfAChristie, the podcast series for fans of Agatha Christie, True Crime, or Murder Mysteries. Here we explore the works of Agatha Christie and connect them to historical crime cases, which follow a similar plot.
In each episode, we will delve into a different aspect of Christie's work and true crime, such as changes in crime scene investigation, pharmaceutical advancements, or the evolving craft of the Poison Pen letter.
I'm Hazel Jones, and this is ABitOfAChristie. In today's episode, we'll be delving into the 1952 novel, Mrs. McGinty's Dead and exploring the fascinating similarities with the real-life murder of Alice Wilshaw from the same year.
We're joined today by the writer Margaret Moxom, author of The Barlaston Murderer, Leslie Green, an intriguing and detailed exploration of the Wilshaw case.
Let's begin by introducing the cases of Mrs. McGinty and Alice Wilshaw and the period in which they happened. We first turn our attention to the fictional murder of Mrs. McGinty.
The victim is described as a 64-year-old widow since her husband died from pneumonia, seven years ago, Mrs. McGinty had been employed performing domestic chores for residents of Broad Henny. Broad Henny is a small village, which contains a handful of cottages, a post office, and a village shop.
Mrs. McGinty rented out a room to a lodger, Mr. James Bentley. He paid her every month for his board, which included breakfast and supper. The cost for this was three pounds a week. This would roughly translate to a hundred pounds a week in today's money. Bentley, however, was two months behind in his rent and had recently lost his job.
On the date of the twenty-second of November, the baker called at Mrs. McGinty's property with a bread delivery. He was expecting to be paid and knocked on the front door. The lodger James Bentley opened the door and went to Mrs. McGinty's bedroom so that she could pay for the bread.
But he received no answer. When he called for her, the baker suggested she might have been ill, so the men went next door to see if a female resident could enter the room and check on her.
On opening the door, it was clear that Mrs. McGinty wasn't in the bedroom, and she hadn't slept in the bed. The room had been ravaged and the floorboards had been prized up. The attention of the three witnesses then turned back to the search for the elderly Charwoman. Going downstairs they went into the parlor.
The scene they found was one of devastation. As Mrs. McGinty lay on the floor with clearly fatal injuries. Police concluded that Mrs. McGinty was hit on the back of her head with some sharp, heavy implements. 30 pounds, about a thousand pounds in modern terms, had been taken from her ransacked room.
However, her cottage wasn't broken into, and there were no signs of any tampering with the windows or locks. The missing money was later found hidden under a loose stone at the back of the cottage.
Further investigations by the police revealed James Bentley's coat sleeve had blood and hair on it, and these were the same blood group and type of hair that Mrs. McGinty had. James Bentley claimed he was never near the body, certainly not close enough for cross-contamination of his clothing and the crime scene.
Despite his protestations of innocence, Bentley was convicted. Chiro investigates against the clock to ascertain the truth before Bentley is hanged for Mrs. McGinty's murder. So, what kind of world would Chiro be investigating this case in?
1952 saw a major change in the UK with George the Sixth passing away on the 6th of February from coronary thrombosis at the age of 56. His young daughter, Elizabeth, was about to start a royal tour of Australia via Kenya. The news of her father's death was broken to her by her husband, Philip, as they had just arrived at their Kenyan home, “The Ghana Lodge.”
The new Queen inherited a well-known name as Prime Minister with Winston Churchill well into his second spell in charge of the British government. Identity cards, a hangover from the Second World War were scrapped, and T rationing ended.
The great smog enveloped London, causing an estimated 4,000 deaths. The now highly recognized scientist, Alan Turing was convicted of growth and decency for homosexuality, and Charlie Chaplin was told he would be refused entry on returning to the United States after the UK premiere of his film Limelight.
This seemed to be under suspicion that he held sympathetic views on communism, was involved in a paternity suit, and chose to date and marry younger women. Suttie and the flowerpot men made their televisual debuts, and another important debut was made. But this time on the stage.
Agatha Christie's, the Mouse Trap, opened on the twenty-fifth of November and has been running ever since. In the same year that Mrs. McGinty's death was published, an eerily similar mystery arose in Stoke on Trent.
Our special guest today, Margaret Moxom, has joined us to share her thoughts on the mysterious murder of Alice Wilshaw. much like Poirot, she asks whether the accused was wrongfully convicted.
Before that, we reached back into the archives to read how Mrs. Wiltshaw's death was reported at the time. The date is the 18th of July 1952, and the staff of the weekly Sentinel reports about a brutal murder on their doorsteps.
Police statement. Superintendent T Lockley, head of Staffordshire, CID, took charge of the inquiries and made the following statement to the weekly sentinel. "When Mr. Wilshire returned home at about sic twenty PM he found his wife lying in the entrance hall in a pool of blood with severe head injuries.
To all appearances, there had been a severe struggle. It looked as if Mrs. Wiltshaw was possibly struck about the head with a hammer or a piece of wood. A poker was lying nearby, and whether Mrs. Wiltshaw used this to defend herself, we do not know.
Dr. HJ Brown, who lives two doors away was immediately called in, but he could only confirm the fact that the death had taken place, how the house was entered, we do not know. The intruder could either have got him by the front door or the back door as neither was locked.
No one heard any unusual noise and no screams. We are anxious to trace a youth scene in the vicinity around four thirty PM. He’s described as seventeen or eighteen years of age, dressed in a grayish suit of average height, and with no hat. He was hanging about in the neighborhood during the afternoon. We are also anxious to trace a young woman who we believe called at the house during the early afternoon. She might be a friend."
Joining us on the show today is author Margaret Moxom from Warrington in Staffordshire. She has written five books, including an autobiographical novel called "Escape from Reality" about her time living in the country of Hercule, pyros birth Belgium.
She also has a collection of short stories called "Kerry and Danny", based on a private eye in Austin, dealing with real mysterious deaths that occurred at the time. She has written about topics ranging from the 1842 Pottery Riots in Stoke on Trent of religious pioneers who left England for the New World in the mid-19th century. Margaret is also a very talented artist and blogger.
Margaret, thank you for being on the show.
Margaret (09:42): Thank you. Nice to meet you.
Hazel Jones (09:44): Could you tell us a little bit about how you began your writing career?
Margaret (09:48): The first book I did was Escape from Reality. I'd spent four years in Belgium, and I needed to write about that. What happened there was a mental psychological journey.
Hazel Jones (10:07): Your latest published novel is called "The Barlaston Murderer: Leslie Green", and it's about the murder of Mrs. Alice Wilshire in 1952. What inspired you to investigate this particular case?
Margaret (10:21): The idea was given to me by a friend, Steven Howe. I've never met him, but he's a Facebook friend. He wanted to do the book himself but asked for my assistance with formatting and ideas. I sent him the first chapter, but then something happened at home—his wife got sick. He couldn't finish the book. He said, "You do it yourself, Maggie."
I was interested because it wasn't just a straightforward murder. He presented himself to Longton Police Station. Why would a murderer go there and say, "I hear you looking for me?" Any brutal murderer would've been well out of the way, even abroad, taken the jewels, and disappeared. My antenna went up. I thought, there's something more to this.
Hazel Jones (11:23): Okay. Maggie, could you walk us through the scene that was discovered on the sixteenth of July 1952 at Station Road in Barlaston?
Margaret (11:31): Mr. Wilshaw would've come home from work about twenty past six, came through the back door into the kitchen, and would've seen pot, some pans strewn all over the floor, potatoes rolling around, and he thought there'd been some sort of accident, or rather, he called out for his wife, no answer.
And he went through to the passageway leading to the staircase. And there he found his wife, obviously dead on the floor in a pool of blood. He was going to kneel to her, but realized he would've been kneeling in blood.
So, the immediate thing he did was to call the police and call Dr. Brown, who was the local doctor. They came and did their checks, but one of the policemen got a metal dust bin lid and put over an area in the kitchen on the tiles where he'd seen a bloody footprint.
Margaret (12:34): They had a sniffer dog as well, and the sniffer dog found a leather gardening glove in the garden. And so, they took that as evidence. The doctor came in and he did a preliminary check over her in the hallway there, they found a hammer. They'd found pieces of wood thrown around. They found this old poker with a claw bit on the end of the poker, but the poker was bent, and it hadn't been bent before.
The doctor found several stab wounds to Mrs. Wiltshaw's abdomen, and right shoulder, the lower jaw was completely shattered, and a large gaping wound extended from the left of the bridge of her nose to the right ear. The top of her scar had been beaten in. They also found a hammer, and they reckon whoever did it used the hammer to beat in a skull.
Hazel Jones (13:32): So after finding this horrific crime scene, the police came in and they must have at that point started to try and create a picture of what happened. And they concluded that someone had committed a robbery and there had been an attack on Mrs. Wilshire, but she had recovered, hadn't she, in between the first attack and then this ultimately fatal attack at the end?
Margaret (13:59): Yeah. There was blood in the kitchen. She'd been attacked in the kitchen. But on the door frame of the door leading from the kitchen into the hallway, they found a bloodied handprint so that no one knew she'd got up of her own accord and crawled through to the end of the staircase in the hallway.
And there she was assailed by all sorts of things thrown at her. And the hammer bashing her in the poker going through her, creating these huge, horrible wounds. Also, their money had been taken out of her bag, and the jewelry had been stolen. The jewelry, they reckon was worth about three thousand pounds in those days, which was a terrific amount nowadays.
Hazel Jones (15:01): Did they conclude that it must have been someone who knew the house, therefore, that they knew that these items were there? Or was it just that someone had walked along that road, seen that it was a very privileged and well-to-do place, and guessed that there might be items of value inside?
Margaret (15:24): I think they concluded that there must have been someone who knew the family, knew that they had jewelry, and also there's a little dog there that the dog would've barked if he'd known that intruder, but he didn't know the intruder if he'd known the intruder he wouldn't have barked, and the dog didn't bark. So, they thought, yes, this person is known.
Hazel Jones (15:52): Police, then quickly turned their attention, didn't they, to a man who you know a lot about, called “Leslie Green”. What do we know about him and what was his connection to the Wiltshaws?
Margaret (16:04): Leslie had been there, chauffeur come handyman until May fifty two when he was sacked for using the car when he shouldn't have been using it. He'd been with them for two years, since 1950, and he was well-liked. If he uses a car without being given permission, then he is bound to be sacked.
Hazel Jones (16:27): Did he have resentment against Wiltshaw for the sacking? Was there anything known about his contact with them afterward, or was it that he was dismissed and that was that?
Margaret (16:37): Yes, he was out of a job. He needed money, and he couldn't get a job because he didn't have a reference.
Hazel Jones (16:44): So, Leslie Green had been unsuccessful in this job. What do we know about his previous jobs or his life growing up?
Margaret (16:53): What we do know about his life growing up was that he had two spells in [inaudible 16:57]. I couldn't find anything much about how he grew up, apart from growing up in Leeds, because I couldn't find anything on the heritage websites.
He was born on the fourth of December 1922, and so that was after the latest heritage sites were available. I even went on to a Leeds website asking questions if anyone knew him, but I didn't get anything back, unfortunately. So, there was not much I could glean from anything about his youth. But he went into the army when he was sixteen, in 1939. And he didn't come out of the Army until 1948. He did get married in forty-six to Constant Gunn, and they did have a child, Gillian.
Hazel Jones (17:54): So we know that Alice lived in a very luxurious property and that she had a lot of time on her hands. She was a lady of leisure. She was able to enjoy the finer things in life. What would life have been like for Leslie?
Margaret (18:10): Coming out of the army he found himself a bit lost. He hadn't been trained for anything apart from driving. He got a few jobs. He got a job with the bakers delivering. He got a job with an insurance company, but none of these jobs lasted long. He couldn't keep to anything.
He also had a nightclub job as a bouncer at the cameo in Longton. That's where he met up, as he said, with friends Charlie and Lorenzo. He finally got this job with the Wiltshaws, and he found that more interesting than the other jobs because he was going here, there, and everywhere, and he liked driving the car.
The car was a status symbol to him, and people looked at him, oh, look, a beautiful car going by. And he had a nice uniform to wear as well. So, he loved it, but he stayed there for two years, but then things started to change, and he started to want more, he went to Leeds and met Nora Lamy, a nurse, and he started going out with her.
Didn't matter to him somehow or other than he'd, he was already married with a daughter. And that's where I think that this psychopath part of him comes out, and, which I wanted to bring out in the book because psychopaths don't have any feelings for anyone.
He didn't care if his wife still had a mortgage to pay on their place in Burton. He didn't care if he wasn't paying payment for his daughter. What I've said in the book is that, when he met this Nora Lami, he started calling himself Terry. She knew him as Terry.
In my book, I've taken Terry to be the psychopath part of his personality. Terry was the one who wanted everything. He wanted fame and fortune, but you know, Leslie was holding him back, losing jobs, no money, whatever. So, he still had to do petty thieving.
He grew up in a bad neck of the woods in Leed and he had to steal to put bread on the table, and that was what he knew. That's why he ended up in [inaudible 20:40] a couple of times. So, he carried on with that. He'd lost his job now with the Wiltshaw, so he had to get some money in from somewhere.
Hazel Jones (20:50): As you mentioned in your book, the Ballston murderer, Leslie, was cooperative with the police, wasn't he?
Margaret (20:55): When he walked into Longton Police Station, he actually would you believe, told them that he had a place in Eastern Street in Longton where he had a lot of stolen stuff. There, there was a wallet and a driving license that he'd nicked from someone called “Harold Ratcliffe” in Western Coney, a shirt, and a few other things.
And so the police went immediately to that place and they found him, and that's when they held him in the South because they'd found all this stolen stuff, obviously they wanted to keep him there to try and investigate further whether he is part of the Wiltshaws murder. And that gave him a chance.
Hazel Jones (21:36): The local newspaper, when they reported it at the time, gave a very clear window for when this murder couldn't have happened. They said that Mrs. Wiltshaws had taken a telephone call at quarter past five and that at twenty past six, she was then found. So that gives us an hour and five minutes unaccounted for. Where does Leslie say that he was at that time?
Margaret (22:02): Yes, she took a call at quarter past five, and the two maids left at twenty-five past five, and Mr. Wiltshaw’s wasn't due home till twenty past six. So, it is in between that time. But the police had to work out whether he could get from Barliston station to Estro's house, commit the murder in the robbery, and get back to Barliston Station in that small amount of time.
As for Leslie Green, he said he was asleep on a park bench in Stafford because he'd had too much to drink and a large lunch. And he left the station hotel at about three thirty, fell asleep at the park bench at Stafford, and didn't wake up till later. And we went back to the station hotel for a meal and then got the train to Leed. That's what he said.
Hazel Jones (23:06): We now take a journey ourselves as we travel back to the fictional world of Broad Inning and the murder of Mrs. McGinty. By now, UR Cuero is fully investigating the case of Mrs. McGinty and that of James Bentley's innocence or guilt.
It is discovered that three days before her death, Mrs. McGinty had been busy clipping out a newspaper article. The story had been taken from the paper, the Sunday Comet, which was known for its scandalous stories, but not perhaps for its editorial accuracy.
The clipping contained a story about two old criminal cases, both involving women. One, a governess called Eva Kane, and the other, a 12-year-old girl called Lily Gamble. Here at ABitOfAChristie, we don't want to give the name of the actual murderer. All that we will say is that it's a thrilling ending.
Hercule Poirot’s Little Gray Cells do solve the crime, but was it James Bentley or a resident of Broad Henney? Why not read Mrs. McGinty's Dead and find out for yourself?
We now return to our interview with Margaret Moxom. When we left, Leslie Green claimed he was asleep on a park bench at the time and couldn't have possibly killed Alice Wilshaw.
Here in part two, we find out what was revealed during the trial. A key moment in the trial was the train timetable and the ticket collector, wasn't it?
Margaret (24:57): Superintendent Lockley did the walk from Barliston to Astral House. He wanted to see if it could be done in the short time that they had for Leslie Green to do the walk, get to the house, do the robbery, do the murder, get back again, and the five 10 train to Baron got in at five forty.
So that gate allowed him seven minutes each way to get to Esmil, get back again to get the 6 0 5 train to Stafford, allowing him eleven minutes in the house. And so Superintendent Lockley said if he ran, he could do it within 15 minutes in the house.
Hazel Jones (25:46): The train timetable also helped to disprove Leslie's movements later on in the day when he claimed he had left Stafford train station,
Margaret (25:57): Green said at the trial that he caught the train at five past seven. But he didn't catch that train because the ticket collector gave witness that he was speaking to Green up to seven twenty. And that green must have got on the seven 50 train to go back to Leeds.
Hazel Jones (26:23): In Margaret's book, she takes an interesting perspective on this case and the frenzied attacks of motivation. She feels that Leslie Green could have suffered from a mental health disorder, which caused him to house several personalities inside his mind. These three personalities Leslie, Terry, and Terrance, all have a different role to play in the murder.
Margaret (26:50): I've written Terrance as another personality that's come out. Terrance would be a protector, and Terrance came out in his youth, protecting him in gang warfare.
Also, when he was in the Army and went to France and was rescued in the small boats, Terrance came out there, sort of protecting him against the gunfire, protecting him from other people who wanted to get onto this piece of a ship that he found that he could get on to use as a raft. And other people were trying to get onto that as well. And Terence would just kick them off. He didn't care about anyone else. He was protecting him. And the three of them, Terence, Terry and Leslie.
So, this personage would come out when he was being attacked. And I feel that this person of Terrance came out when Leslie had gone into Astral House to do the robbery, was confronted by Mrs. Wiltshaw, Mrs. Wiltshaw threw a pan of potatoes at him. And that's when Terrance came to light and then started this brutal murder of hers.
Hazel Jones (28:06): Perhaps these were genuine blackouts and when Leslie says that he didn't remember certain things that actually might have been the case, that because of these blackouts, he couldn't remember.
Margaret (28:17): Yes, because if Terry was, as I say, in the light, looking after the body, leading the body then, Leslie wouldn't know what was happening. He would have these blackouts. He wouldn't know what was happening as far as Leslie knew, he was asleep on a park bench in Stafford.
Hazel Jones (28:42): During the trial, it was revealed that Leslie Green had been seen having dinner with two other gentlemen. These possibly could have been his friends that he'd worked with at the nightclub, although there was no formal identification given.
Margaret (28:58): But the two guys from the hotel came to do the robbery, which they had discussed.
Hazel Jones (29:04): Despite Leslie naming these two men as his friends, Charlie and Lorenzo, no identity could be confirmed, and therefore their stories could not be corroborated. From the state of the house and the injuries inflicted on Alice Wiltshaw it's not impossible to believe that it was more than one person. There were so many different ways in which she was attacked.
Margaret (29:24): Just my theory, an awful theory, I can't say anymore. The thing is that some of the jewelry is found that they got two rings from Mrs. Wiltshaw's fingers, and Leslie gave these two rings, or Terry gave these two rings to his girlfriend Nora Lamy, and a necklace, a chain, and a cigarette case. But what happened to the other jewelry? They never found them; they looked in all sorts of places that he could have been. And they never found the rest of the jewelry. So, did the two men go off with the rest?
Hazel Jones (30:02): Without an alibi, the defense had to rely on Leslie Green's recollections of what happened on that day.
Margaret (30:11): Oh, the court case was dreadful for Leslie because he wasn't backed up by Terry anymore, and he didn't have those memories that Terry had. He couldn't remember, for example, he was asked about Lorenzo and Charlie, and he was asked about their car, or their last names, or what was the registration of the car, and he couldn't answer.
That's why the jury thought, well, he is made up of these people, and he's just trying to get off with it, saying that Lorenzo and Charlie had done the robbery and the murder. And so that's why the jury only took twenty-nine minutes to come forth with a reply of guilty.
Hazel Jones (31:03): As the case unfolded, there was yet more strong evidence against Leslie. And what became of the blooded footprint that was found by the police and a dustbin lid was put over the top, were they able to match that up to anything?
Margaret (31:18): First of all, I'll say that when Green presented himself at Longton Police Station, they went through his belongings and they found these trainers sneakers with a strange pattern on the sole, not a usual pattern. They took those to measure up this print in the blood in the kitchen at Astral House, and they seemed to correspond. The sole on the shoe seemed to be the same as the print in the blood.
And so that was another thing against him. What Green said was I got them from a friend in Manchester, he brought them over from abroad. He could have given them to anyone, any number of people could have had them. That was his defense.
Hazel Jones (32:11): But again, he couldn't remember anything about those shoes being in that house because the Leslie part of him had blacked out. Were there any other pieces of evidence that the police had other than the glove and the footprint and the fact that the timetabling of the trains didn't entirely match up?
Margaret (32:36): Well, they got his train ticket that he purchased at Baron. They got that, so they knew what train he was on, and they found the RAF star coat on a train at the end of the line. And that coat had been on the seven-fifty train from Stafford.
And so, they knew exactly what train he was on and everything else was lies. I mean, by the time in this court case, Jeff Leslie was so perplexed, wound up, couldn't remember anything that he was saying, you've made it all up.
Hazel Jones (33:29): In December 1952, Mr. Justice Stable found Leslie Green guilty of Alice Wiltshaw murder. But what was his reaction? Did he suddenly confess, or did he still proclaim his innocence?
Margaret (33:45): He just took it like a soldier. He knew the case was lost. He mapped up his defense completely. He couldn't remember things that had happened, and he had no comeback. So, he knew the case was lost, and when the jury came back after just twenty-nine minutes, that was it up. And he's sprawled in the dock area, Leslie Green's last stand.
Mr. Wiltshaw couldn't live in the house any longer, and he sold it. It had been a college for a few years, but the college had changed it, ordered it, pulled down shelves, pulled up tiles, and wrecked it. And then the college left, and they left to go to rack and ruin with rain coming in the roof through broken tiles. And I don't know what's going to happen to it now. I thought it was going to be poured down, made into flats, whatever.
Hazel Jones (35:07): ABitOfAChristie would like to thank Margaret Moxom for coming onto the show today and sharing the tragic story of the death of Alice Wiltshaw.
For me, this case highlights the words ordinary evil. Alice was a housewife in her home making tea for her husband, and the worst possible thing happened to her, in her place of safety.
The actions of that half-hour period went on to affect the lives of the Wiltshaws and also Leslie's family, his wife, and his daughter. The fact that this case took place just six months after Agatha Christie had released “Mrs. McGinty's Dead” goes to show how accurate Agatha Christie was in seeing the secret side of English village life. The evil that lies in ordinary lives.
It is our aim at ABitOfAChristie to talk about the accomplished works of Agatha Christie, but also to promote other people who have a link to her works. Margaret is in the process of writing two more books, and here she tells us what we can look forward to.
Margaret (36:25): Well, the first one is about the RAF Fauld Explosion of 1944, so that's the twenty-seventh of November 1944. I've been given loads of information by the grandson of the lady who set up the temporary morgue. Plus, I've interviewed people and I've got stories online from people who have experienced it. And I'm incorporating that all into this book.
Hazel Jones (36:58): And the second book.
Margaret (37:01): It has to do with the Daniel Brothers in Rough Close in Staffordshire. And this is set in 1886 when one of the brothers killed the other brother with a shotgun. After we think around, I've got all the archive, newspapers about it again. And I've got all the trial, so that's all going in. But I'm going to also build in is, a century later or more when another family is there, just moved into the house and they start experiencing ghosts or phenomena.
Hazel Jones (37:39): If people wanted to find out more about your work or buy one of your novels, what is the best way for them to do that?
Margaret (37:45): Most of them are available on Amazon.co.UK. You can go to my website, which is MaggieMoxom.artweb.com. And that will show a few of my paintings that I've done as well.
Hazel Jones (38:03): And all of these links can be found in the podcast description below where you are listening now. Well, thank you for joining us in this first episode of ABitOfAChristie. We hope you've enjoyed yourself, and if you have, there are numerous ways you can keep up to date with what's happening in "ABitOfAChristie World".
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