Dangerous Standard of Proof

She had covered fifteen criminal trials in six years. She knew exactly which words to use in a courtroom. No one had thought to ask her.London, 1901. Nora Vane is an investigative journalist at the London Gazette who has spent six years learning to make men in power accountable—quietly, precisely, and entirely on her own. When a young laundress named Agnes Merritt walks into her office carrying a ...