William Palmer
Search results
Robert Graves recounts the life of William Palmer: surgeon, racehorse owner...a confessed forger who got girls into trouble, doped horses, robbed a few people...but was he a prisoner?
About They Hanged My Saintly Billy. A real historical figure, the British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means of poison.
They hanged my saintly Billy : the life and death of Dr. William Palmer : Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
They Hanged My Saintly Billy. Paperback – 10 Oct. 2019. Robert Graves tells the story of a Victorian doctor accused of murdering 14 people in this work of true crime with a literary bent. As described by Graves, this is 'a novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest [and] suicides.'.
As described by its author, They Hanged My Saintly Billy is “a novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging.”
Based on the historic trial of a man characterized as a sociopath and a serial killer, Robert Graves tells the story of a man who was deeply flawed but ultimately not beyond...
They Hanged My Saintly Billy is true crime as only a true literary master could write it, with exquisitely rendered portraits of Palmer's era and milieu, told from the shifting perspectives of all who came into contact with the notorious doctor.
