The Maul and the Pear Tree

The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 is a true crime book by British historian T. A. Critchley and mystery writer P. D. James about the Ratcliff Highway murders, published in 1971.^[1]

According to the publisher's blurb, it is "one of the most elegant exercises in literary historical detection since Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time".

Notes

^ James Gregory (30 November 2011). Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain. I.B.Tauris. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-85773-088-6.

[1] James Gregory (30 November 2011). Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain. I.B.Tauris. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-85773-088-6.

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v t e Works by P. D. James
Adam Dalgliesh series	Cover Her Face A Mind to Murder Unnatural Causes Shroud for a Nightingale The Black Tower Death of an Expert Witness A Taste for Death Devices and Desires Original Sin A Certain Justice Death in Holy Orders The Murder Room The Lighthouse The Private Patient
Cordelia Gray series	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman The Skull Beneath the Skin
Other novels	Innocent Blood The Children of Men Death Comes to Pemberley
Non-fiction	The Maul and the Pear Tree Talking About Detective Fiction