FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN COVENTRY.

New softcover. Gripping accounts of the dark side of Coventry's history. Murder, frenzied assaults, executions, poisoners, crimes of passion. Vivid insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Among the many awful episodes the author recalls are the brutal execution of a regicide as well as martyrdoms and a witchcraft murder in the medieval period. He retells the story of a triple execution at Gibbet Hill, chronicles poisonings and drownings in the Georgian and Victorian eras, and describes a murderers' lonely suicide in much more recent times. Illus., Select Sources and Index. 176pp. 8vo. New softcover.