CRIME AND CRIMINALS IN VICTORIAN LINCOLNSHIRE

Softcover. Read about the horrid murder by Thomas Bacon of Stamford (the beast was said to have cut the throats of his two innocent little children). Shudder at the dreadful deeds of Ann Milner of Lincoln (who murdered her mother-in-law with arsenic). See the pitiful poverty of the criminal classes. Shun the dishonest bakers who put alum in their bread. Tremble at the miseries caused by the Devil's drink. And respect the fine upstanding policemen who maintained law and order in such a beastly shire as Lincolnshire. Illus. + Sources and Index of Places. 114pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.