On March 23, 1944, as the allied forces prepared for D-Day, Britains most famous psychic, Helen Duncan-Nell to her family-stood in the dock of Britains highest criminal court accused of...witchcraft. It was a trial so bizarre Winston Churchill grumbled, Why all this tomfoolery? But the Prime Minister was not privy to the Military Intelligence agenda fueling the prosecution: Duncans sances were accurately revealing top-secret British ship movements. The authorities wanted Hellish Nell silenced. Using diaries, personal papers, interviews, and declassified documents, Nina Shandler resurrects this strange courtroom episode and the shadowy world of wartime secrets and psychics. Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, The Strange Case of Hellish Nell is a true crime tale laced with supernatural phenomena and wartime intrigue.