The Maul and the Pear Tree

The Maul and the Pear Tree

"The Maul and the Pear Tree" is a true crime book by PD James and TA Critchley about the Ratcliff Highway murders, published in 1971.

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


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