HOLY KILLERS True Stories of Murderous Clerics, Priests and Religious Leaders.

Hardback, 1st edn. The author delves into the archives to tell the extraordinary and gripping stories of over 20 clerics, priests and cult leaders who resorted to murder to resolve their personal or collective obsessions. Father Matthew Peiris, Anglican faithhealer from Letchworth, untruthfully diagnosed diabetes in his wife and his lover's husband and gave them both fatal doses of insulin. The Rev. George Dyson, Methodist minister from Westminster, gave comfort to a lovelorn grocer's wife and liquid chloroform to put in her husband's final brandy nightcap. Roman Catholic Father Hans Schmidt chopped up his girlfriend and dumped her in the sea, and the tide washed back her remains to haunt him. Mormon Bishop John Lee dressed his faithful as Indians to attack and kill 123 people. Abbe Auriol heard of wealth in the confessionsl, and murdered to get it. A catalogue of British, European, American and Asian priests who preached 'Thou shalt not kill' but shot, stabbed, strangled or poisoned the faithful for power, sex or money. Illus. + Index. 282pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp o/w Nr. F. in F. dw.