Cane Hills was born in 1953 and studied at John Ruskin Grammar School, Croydon. He commenced employment in the data processing industry in 1970 and continued in this sphere for a third of a century, writing many technical documents in the process. He then moved into the world of stained glass, working predominantly on lights in domestic properties in the London area.
The Addiscombe Mystery is the author’s fourth true crime publication. It provides a detailed investigation into a single unsolved case that was previously summarised in Addiscombe Murderers 1749–2021, the third volume in a trilogy, preceded by Buckingham Joe and Biddenden Murderers, that documented nefarious goings-on in Wealden Kent and South London.
The Addiscombe Mystery
In March 1932 Miss Sushannah Emberton, the 55-year-old housekeeper of Mr Ells Dagnall, was attacked in a semi-detached house in Addiscombe Road, East Croydon. She received such severe injuries that she died within two days of the assault.By the time the police arrived, the perpetrator(s) had fled, l...
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