Littlehampton in the 1920s was menaced by a bizarre poison-pen case, which required the attention of a leading Metropolitan Police detective, and resulted in four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished. The Littlehampton Libels untangles this mystery story, exploring the inner lives of an English working-class community. a portal onto the imaginative structures of working-class life in the 1920s ... Beautifully written and deeply researched, The Littlehampton Libels is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of gender, class, poverty, and literacy in early twentieth-century England and should be required reading for all students of the period ... This riveting microhistory ... tells us much about the imaginative lives of people whose stories are too frequently untold