Wallace, Liverpool and Rubinstein

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Instances are legion of the Court of Appeal turning somersaults to try and uphold a conviction which is widely held to be unsafe. "

and they seem to continue...

[Mick Norris]

The Mouthless Dead Guardian review of the Anthony Quinn book

The author’s haunting and highly readable fictionalisation of a high-profile killing in prewar Liverpool is rich in legal and procedural detail

Quinn’s masterstroke is not to focus on Wallace himself, a middle-aged insurance company collection agent who lived in Liverpool, but to invent a new character, Detective Inspector Key, who plays chess with Wallace and is drawn into the case as much through his friendship with the accused man as for professional reasons.