Murder in the Mews: Elvira Barney, 1932 by Mark John Maguire

When Michael Stephen was shot dead in a Knightsbridge Mews house in 1932, it could not have been more straightforward: there was no suspect other than his lover, Elvira Barney, they had been heard quarrelling beforehand, and she had been heard by 3 witnesses saying she would shoot him immediately before the fatal shot was fired. If that was not enough, the victim had said he was going to leave her for another woman - and she was reported to have fired a gun at him a few days earlier. It couldn’t be simpler. Could it? Mark John Maguire @