The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew: A Real Life Murder Melodrama in Three Acts

The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew

A Real Life Murder Melodrama in Three Acts

1989 • 360 pages

An examination of the murder of Reading tobacconist, Alfred Oliver and the inquest into his death. Popular opinion was that the prime murder suspect was Philip Yale Drew, a flamboyant, eccentric actor but Whittington-Egan suggests that his hounding was the result of dubious evidence and motivation.

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