Life as a writer is always full of surprises. I had an unexpected email from a member of Luton Paranormal Society saying that they were about to investigate Nellie Rault’s unsolved murder case and that they had read my novel ‘Murder Now and Then.‘ My murder mystery IS fiction, although Nellie’s story, whose murder in Haynes in1919, was unsolved (Lucille Vardon in my novel) is as close to the true story as I could surmise from research in newspaper cuttings of the day.
I stress that my solution to Nellie’s murder back in 1919 in my novel and the fictional murder in 2019 are pure fiction. (of course because the latter is set in the future one hundred years on!)
If you scroll down on this link you
Nellie Rault’s grave in Haynes churchyard
will find that the Paranormal Society’s investigation has now been put back to 2018 but I’ll let you know as soon as I hear anything. How exciting!
Diana Jackson 
Full Report and film of the Nellie Rault investigation can be viewed by visiting http://www.lutonparanormal .com and then either film or report of photographs pages. LPS intends to revisit the location in 2018 as we believe we may have found the location of the murder in the woods.
Hi thanks for dropping by with this report. The story of Nellie lives on!
When I tried the link though, it didn’t work, but this one does. http://www.lutonparanormal.com/
The original and substantial research into the fascinating story of Nelly Rault, which inspired my novel ‘Murder Now and Then’, was made by Liz Walton, a member of the Channel Island Great War Study Group. Her full account including photos can be found here, for anyone else interested. http://www.greatwarci.net/women/jersey/nr/pdf/nellie-rault.pdf