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". James and Critchley worked together as Civil Servants at the Home Office and were able to draw upon original sources when writing the book.

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