"Murder, Mystery And Execution" - Volume 12

Capital Cases From Britain and Ireland (1800-1964)

von Matthew Spicer

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"Murder, Mystery And Execution" - Volume 12 - looks at another 30 [Thirty] more capital cases of murder in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to the effective end of the death penalty in these islands in 1964 .... Once again the motives ranged from anger/revenge; passion & jealousy; robbery, sexual et al to those who had no motive .... But all of them had as their last sight - the rope on the gallows and the hangman and his white hood .... Most of the cases are not that well known and this time there are included two cases of four Irish Republicans executed in 1922 and 1940 for murders in England; a police-officer executed in 1926; the last public execution in Cornwall in 1862 and cases that are well-known such as George Chapman (1903), Karl Hulten (1945) and Samuel Dougal (1903); there are cases from London, Scotland, Wales and Ireland et al .... Also there is a list of the cases in the previous 11 volumes (330 cases) ....

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176144246
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published