Poison, strangulation. Shooting. Check-in for a trip through the London Hotels of the twentieth century. But what drives a mother to murder her son? What makes a wife shoot her husband. On the way to marriage would a young man shoot his intended? How strong is the grip of criminal lunacy and paranoid delusions? These are but a few of the questions addressed in what range from a palace to a doss-house. Murder knows no social boundaries. It brings its sting to strangers and loved ones. And it opens secrets that should never have been told. Illustrated with over forty photographs and portrait drawings.