MURDER ON MERSEYSIDE

Softcover. In this study, the author recounts 17 stories of the murders and murderers of Merseyside and includes : the baffling case of the Victorian canned corpse. The magistrate's beautiful granddaughter who was killed by a crazed admirer. The condemned man who was hanged twice. Frederick Deeming - the Rainhill psychopath who wiped out his own family and danced on their grave with his next victim. The bizarre link between a South Seas cult and the housewife who was stabbed 24 times in her Knotty Ash home by a killer who struck under the cover of fog. The unsolved case of the superintendent and his son who died of gunshot wounds under mysterious circumstances in a police station. The connection between Jack the Ripper and Liverpool. The supposed assassination by the CIA of John Lennon. 152pp. trade size softcover. F. with no creasing to covers.