I read this as an audiobook and although the narrator has a comically "queen's English" accent that gets worse on quotation, I cannot imagine having been able to get through the book... This book is much more about the effect of the crime on social justice, the law and the general impact on those in contemporary society, than in relation to the crime itself.
To say I have limited interest in the law of Victorian England, would be to overstate my interest. However, it was a good audiobook to fall asleep to, which is exactly what I downloaded it for.