Elfrida College for the Training of Female Elementary Teachers encouraged the highest standards of behaviour in its young ladies. Bathing in the nude was a flagrant breach of the Rules.
For Harriet Shaw this daring midnight dip caused more than a chilly frisson – she was to become an important witness in a case of murder, having been surprised in the water by three men in a boat, and a dog.
Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray take on the case, recreating a famous river journey down the Thames in pursuit of the truth.
