BLOODY AMBASSADORS. The Gruesome Stories of Irish People Tried for Murder Abroad

Paperback. A Victorian maid takes a meat-axe to her prim employer, hacks off her head, dismembers the body and spends the rest of the day boiling the bits on the range. A labourer in Birmingham rapes a girl in a hostel and cuts off her head and right breast. A nymphomaniac wife poisons her husband when her gypsy lover decides to leave their menage a trois. What do these grisly people have in common, apart from murder? They were all Irish but practised their trade abroad. The author has compiled a dossier of 10 murders by exiles, proving that killing is exportable too. The accounts of death, detection and trial are detailed, blood-curdling and utterly fascinating. Illus., Select Bibliog. + General Reference. 194pp. paperback. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. Nr. F.