Sweet Adelaide is a 1980 historical crime novel by the British writer Julian Symons.Bargainnier p.218 It is based on the real-life 1886 Pimlico Mystery concerning the possible murder of Thomas Bartlett by his wife Adelaide.Haste p.33 Symons had already enjoyed success with another Victorian-set mystery The Blackheath Poisonings.
References
Bibliography Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984. Haste, Steve. Criminal Sentences: True Crime in Fiction and Drama. Cygnus Arts, 1997. Walsdorf, John J. & Allen, Bonnie J. Julian Symons: A Bibliography. Oak Knoll Press, 1996.