The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2022 book, The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe
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The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe
David Leigh, 2022
TV series vs book
Richard Laxton, 2022-

Suffocated by debts, prison officer John Darwin pretended to drown in a canoe accident so his wife could make fraudulent claims on their insurance. Anne Darwin played the grieving widow whilst police investigated his disappearance. Yet all along John Darwin was living in an apartment in the house next door to his wife, regularly visiting her through an interconnecting passage. Devastated by the loss of their father, neither of their sons had an inkling their parents had betrayed them.