w.m. rhodes

Dr Edward William Pritchard was born in 1825, in Southsea, Hampshire, he was the son of a navy captain and came from a family with distinguished naval connections.

On the surface, the doctor was well mannered and respectable. He was a kind and loving husband who adored his wife and family. Beneath that pleasant exterior, however, lurked a darkness that few would have guessed existed. He was a loathsome, arrogant man, a serial adulterer, and a sociopathic liar who would go down in history as one of Britain's most evil killers.

But, was the doctor innocent of such sinister crimes? What was his motive for murder? In a case that gripped the nation, reports suggest the possibility of even more victims.

Based on historical records, and written creatively, this account closely examines the Pritchard's lives and the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the sinister doctor's victims.