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Ruth Ellis: My Sister's Secret Life
 
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Ruth Ellis: My Sister's Secret Life (Paperback)
by Muriel Jakubait (Author), Monica Weller (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Robinson Publishing (7 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845291190
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845291198
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 179,342 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Synopsis
The secret double-life of Ruth Ellis and the Establishment cover-up that led to her unjust hanging Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, was convicted fifty years ago for shooting her lover David Blakely. The case became a notorious part of British criminal history and was turned into the film, Dance with a Stranger. The story that has been perpetuated ever since is that of a peroxide tart who killed in a fit of passion. Yet, crucial questions were left unasked in the original trial. Ruth Ellis's sister, Muriel Jakubait, knew her longest of all. She has never given up her search for justice. Now after fifty years she has decided to reveal the hard facts about their shared upbringing, and seek to piece together the full true story of her sister. As she is at pains to point out, the jealous killer tag has never been substantiated. This is a story of power, espionage, lies, loyalty, poverty, sex and betrayal. It suggests a third man may have pulled the trigger for the fatal shots. And that he belonged to a web of espionage into which Ruth Ellis fell long before the shooting.

Above all, it indicates that Ruth was being run by Stephen Ward, at least a decade before his name became public in the Profumo Scandal. Muriel's motive is about more than proving her sister Ruth's innocence. It's about reclaiming the right to tell the story of her own family, stripped bare of the many tabloid myths that have accrued over the decades. She shows that Ruth was somebody damaged at a very early age - who strove to make something of herself, only to be caught up in something much bigger and end up paying with her life.


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