Wrapping this up neatly is not a simple task. It’s January 1920, and fifty-five year old nurse Florence Nightingale Shore enters the carriage of a train on the London to Hastings line. Her friend Mabel who is seeing her off that day, sees a man in a brown suit enter the carriage just as the…
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The Nightingale Shore Mystery Part V — Oil Matters
Rafael Farina, the ambitious new head of Mi5’s G4 Russian Section is on the 4th Floor at 4 Queen’s Gate, South Kensington. Ever since the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George had agreed to hold trade talks with the Soviet his work has tripled in volume. There was a time when he had just a…
The Nightingale Shore Mystery Part IV — Russians in St Leonards
If Chief Inspector Haigh had been confused by the serial spy capers of his first suspect, Ernest C. Brown, then the intelligence making it on to the desk of the victim’s cousin at Mi5, Rafael Farina, would have been more perplexing still — and also well above his pay grade. On the one hand, Florence…
The Nightingale Shore Mystery Part III — A Cousin at Mi5
It is January 1920, and Britain stands on a razor’s edge. While the government prepares to broker trade with Lenin’s Soviet regime, a bitter faction war is exploding behind the scenes: anti-communist hardliners and intelligence figures are frantically trying to crush the Bolsheviks. At the heart of this fractured shadow-conflict stands Florence Nightingale Shore’s brother,…
The Nightingale Shore Mystery Part II
Section D and Russian Intrigue So far, we’ve learned that Captain Ernest Brown was not only questioned about the Nightingale Shore murder, he was also questioned about two other serious incidents: the murder of a police officer in Turkey, and spying on subs in Glasgow’s Faslane Naval Base. In the first of these, the Nightingale…
Florence Nightingale Shore and the Truth of Her Murder
Toplis may be the most famous suspect in the case, but an unseen interview with Ernest C. Brown reveals another possibility.