MASTERS OF CRIME Studies of Multiple Murders.

Hardback. Contents include amongst others : Chapter 1 is entitled 'The "Ripper" Murders' - (pp.15-34 incl.); Troppman (slayer of 8 people including the Kinck family); John Owen, alias Jones (travelling blacksmith who murdered Emmanuel Marshall, his wife, mother and 4 children); Joseph Philippe (the French "Jack the Ripper"); John Gleeson Wilson (the destroyer of Mrs Henricksen, 2 children and maidservant in Liverpool); Georges Lacenaire; John Williams (Ratcliff Highway); Albert Hicks (pirate-murderer); Frederick Bailey Deeming etc., etc. + Scenes of Celebrated Crimes (Gill's Hill, Polestead, Fetcham, Roehampton, Rugeley, Todmorden etc.) Illus. 288pp. 8vo. h/back. V. lightly browned edges o/w a Nr. F. copy of a very scarce title.