A Pin to See the Peepshow is a 1934 novel by F. Tennyson Jesse, based on the 1922 Thompson–Bywaters murder case.

She longs for a better life, but makes an ill-advised marriage during the First World War.

Sarah Waters has praised A Pin to See the Peepshow, writing "rarely, it seemed to me, had I been plunged by a piece of fiction into an emotional world so vivid, so complete, so convincingly untidy.

It was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and so premiered at a private venue in London: the Peter Cotes production was at the New Boltons Theatre Club.

[10][11] In 1973 it was adapted into a four-part TV series by the BBC, written by Elaine Morgan and starring Francesca Annis.