Table of Contents
Foreword
Loomings
Chapter 1: The Traditional Story, the Revisionist Story, and the Story
Chapter 2: And for the Golden Crown Award, the Winner Is …
Chapter 3: Richard Hesketh and Other Spies
Chapter 4: On the Road with Hesketh and Baylie
Chapter 5: The Fatal Meeting
Chapter 6: Brewerton Green
Chapter 7: Hesketh’s Arrest, Interrogation, Arraignment, and Hanging
Chapter 8: Queer Street
Chapter 9: Insults and Injuries
Chapter 10: “Bearing Himself so Haughtily Against my Lord of Essex”
Chapter 11: Ferdinando, Essex, and the Throne
Chapter 12: The Day after April Fool’s Day
Chapter 13: Passion, Poison, and Putrefaction
Chapter 14: The Documents in the Case
Chapter 15: “This for Poison”
Chapter 16: This for Witchcraft: “Touching the Death of the Earl of Derby”
Chapter 17: This for Public Consumption
Chapter 18: Rounding up the (Highly Un)usual Suspects
Chapter 19: The Other
Chapter 20: The Missing Gentleman Waiter
Epilogue: On the Fleet Prison Night Watch with John Golborne
Appendix: The Written Instructions Hesketh Memorized
Notes
Sources
Index
