Molly Whittington-Egan

Molly Whittington-Egan is a British writer, the author of factual works on crime, psychiatric matters and literary biography.

Early Biography

Born in Chelsfield, Kent. Educated at Nottingham Girls' High School GPDST, won an exhibition to read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. Earlier employment included teaching English in Finland (Helsinki). Did social work at two large London Psychiatric Hospitals for more than a decade.

Later Biography

Admitted solicitor, 1977. Reviewer for Contemporary Review for twenty-five years. She and her husband, the author Richard Whittington-Egan, live in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Selected publications

• Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case (1990)
• Murder on the Bluff: The Carew Poisoning Case (1996)
• Scottish Murder Stories (1998)
• Jacques L'Eventreur. Jean Dorsenne [English translation by M.W-E] (1999)
• Doctor Forbes Winslow: Defender of the Insane (2000)
• The Stockbridge Baby Farmer and Other Scottish Murder Stories (2001)
• Frank Miles and Oscar Wilde: 'Such White Lilies' (2008)
• Arthur O'Shaughnessy: Music Maker (2013)
• Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism (2015)
• The Execution of Mary Ansell (Forthcoming)

With Richard Whittington-Egan:-

• The Story of Mr. George Edalji (1985)^[1]
• The Bedside Book of Murder (1988)
• The Murder Almanac (1992)
• Murder on File (2005)

References