Aftermath
Two inquests were held and the details were considered to be so scandalous that women and children were banned from the room while Florence Bravo testified: the searching cross-examination launched the career of the lawyer George Henry Lewis. The first returned an open verdict. The second inquest returned a verdict of wilful murder; however, nobody was ever arrested or charged.
The household broke up after the inquest ended and the twice widowed Florence moved away, dying of alcohol poisoning two years later.
The novel (and later film) So Evil My Love by "Joseph Shearing" (pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen) both have elements of the Bravo poisoning in the plot.
The novel Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr also has elements of the Bravo case in the first murder.
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