In FATAL AFFAIRS, Kate Clarke recounts five extraordinary murder cases from the eighteenth and nineteenth century where love and romantic infatuation ended in death. In 1752, MARY BLANDY fell in love with army officer WILLIAM CRANSTOUN. Thwarted by her father's opposition to the match, they plotted his murder by arsenic poisoning. Cranstoun evaded justice, but Mary was hanged at Oxford Castle. Sexually violated as a child, ELIZABETH JEFFRIES and...