SOURCE: A review of Hearken to the Evidence. Times Literary Supplement 1658 (9 November 1933): 777.

In the following review, the author gives a synopsis of Wakefield's Hearken to the Evidence.

Lady Tarnhorn's husband was a troublesome invalid and her senior by many years; moreover—although presumably a faithful wife—she was known to have inspired other men with infatuation. In spite of these circumstances no suspicion at first attached to her when her husband died of arsenic poisoning, because one of the infatuated young men confessed to murder, swore that she had known nothing of his plan and then committed suicide. With that, no doubt, the tragedy would have ended had it not been for the evidence of an under-gardener named Alcock. This man—apparently a dull-witted but honest country oaf—himself approached the police and volunteered the statement that, on the day of her husband's death, he had seen Lady...