Gardel scraped flesh from bones and burned them in the garret to dispose of Mrs. King's body.
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A stern, old-world murder chronicle that favors record, consequence, and public judgment over suspense.
The episode moves through two eighteenth-century murder cases with the stiffness of a court ledger. It begins with Theodore Gardel, a Geneva-born painter on enamel whose London lodgings become the scene of Mrs.
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If you want eighteenth-century murder cases rendered like a parish ledger, start here, with executions and all.
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