THE TRIAL OF RUTH ELLIS

Hardback, 1st edn. Celebrated Trials Series. Gen. Editor Jonathan Goodman. On Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover David Blakely outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead. Tried at the Old Bailey she was found guilty of murder and condemned to hang. The sentence caused much controversy but despite this, she was executed on July 13, the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain. Illus., Appendices. 156pp. 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in Vg+ dw. which has the usual faded sp.