In Popular Culture
With elements of the Crippen case, Francis Iles created his novel of murder in a country village, Malice Aforethought, making the killer a doctor like Crippen and having the murder scheme unravelled by a second murder plot.
Deadly Advice, a black comedy released in 1994, was set in Hay-on-Wye and had Jane Horrocks becoming a serial killer under the ghostly influence of Armstrong (played by Edward Woodward) and others like Dr Crippen (Hywel Bennett) and Jack the Ripper (John Mills).
In Detection Unlimited, a mystery novel written by Georgette Heyer, a character is compared to Armstrong.
Read more about this topic: Herbert Rowse Armstrong
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