Richard Whittington-Egan

On a beautiful July evening in 1910, Thomas Weldon Atherstone, at 47 a handsome and popular actor, was found dying on the ground at the foot of an iron staircase running down the back of a mansion block hard by Battersea Park, in south London. He had been shot. Some 104 years later, who shot him and why he was killed remains a total mystery. This book provides a complete revelation of the actor's life story: his birth in the outskirts of Liverpool;...