"Murder, Mystery And Execution" - Volume 10: Capital Cases From Britain and Ireland (1800-1964) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798270505035)

"Murder, Mystery And Execution" - Volume 10 - 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 .... This time there are cases from Norfolk, Surrey, Bedfordshire; the last public execution in Wales (1866); three cases where the victims were police-officers; a murder in Salford Docks, in Windsor and in Epping Forest et al .... Also there is a list of the cases in the previous 9 volumes (270 cases) ....