Fred and Edie

In December 1922 Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner''s shop, was tried for conspiring with her young lover Frederick Bywaters to murder her husband, Percy. The sensational trial, which took place in front of heaving crowds at the Old Bailey, unravelled a real life drama as exciting as any blockbuster: an illicit love affair, a back-street abortion, d...