Murders in the Dark : The Astonishing True Story of the 1942 Blackout Murders

A series of violent and calculated murders, perpetrated across a six-day period in the heart of wartime London.

A city plunged into utter darkness for fourteen hours at a time. An erratic and desperately charming RAF man with an overactive imagination and a penchant for lying. A tense and furious geopolitical background as the world reels from the effects of warfare. This is the world in which Gordon Cummins was hunted down, tried and convicted of the crimes of the Blackout Ripper, a serial killer who murdered four women in February 1942. But was he guilty?

Murders in the Dark is a thrilling, forensic re-examination of one of the most notorious and brutal criminal cases London has ever been witness to. Gordon Cummins wouldn''t be convicted today - prompting questions about the nature of justice, the changing elements of forensic investigations, and how preconceived notions of class and wealth can lead to often-fatal miscarriages of the law.